Sentences with phrase «human venality»

Larger forces than run of the mill human venality are at play and even lawyers can be swayed by the wieldings of power that may occur.

A great deal of Holloway's argument is about the inescapability of human venality, especially in politics.

And when we rid the world of poverty, ignorance and disease and provide for the needs and pleasures of everyone, human venality will cease.

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Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

The cumulative results of human degradation, ignorance, greed and venality over the ages have created a conspiracy of suffering which can only be undone by a new injection of wisdom and a new conspiracy of love - love of God and love of neighbour.