Sentences with phrase «of human greed»

It's the nature of human greed that, in any asset market that offers the potential for great income and wealth gains, some investors will look for short - term profit.

But these are strange times, when a hurricane in a hurricane belt and a drought in a drought belt are supposed to be evidence of human greed and excess.

The whole notion that there «must be a solution» is countered by historical evidence of human greed and shortsightedness.

A meditation on humankind's relationship to the ocean, it depicts the majestic beauty of the natural world in stark contrast with images of human greed and brutality.

But what could constitute heroism in today's fractured, fragmented, technology - dominated global world threatened with extinction because of human greed, brutality and ignorance?

What makes me sick is that these animals 9 times out of 10 have to be put down or live a life of pain because of human greed.

Does this «hero» get a gun and go after the human hunters that are responsible for the extinction of many species because of human greed and ignorance that destroys habitat??

When you find a promising new investment idea with a prospect of making a lot of money, it triggers the emotion of human greed which is the enemy of a rational mind.

Commentating on the horrors of human greed, which sees both Chase and Pollard pursue a «whale haven» despite warning, Howard blurs the line between fiction and real events to explore the powerlessness of man against the forces of the natural world.

There are two radically different approaches to dealing with the issue of human greed.

Upton Sinclair wrote a book called The Jungle, whose real impact lay not in its revelation of human greed but in its portrayal of the inhuman conditions in which sausages are made.

If anything happens to humankind it will be because of human greed, arrogance, and apathy.

Their great concern is the destructiveness of human greed.

Not exact matches

Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.»

This industry is not immune from the foibles of greed and human psychology.

«Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.»

Some would say, of course, that O'Leary's religion is money; that he appeals to the worst aspect of human nature, greed, and that this in itself disqualifies him from participating in Canadian political life.

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«Despite the comfortable academic consensus of market efficiency, financial markets will never be efficient because markets are, and will always be, driven by human emotions: greed and fear» Seth Klarman

Visualized, these stock markets may take the shape of a turbulent ocean with waves made of human hopes, dreams, greed and fear.

«Fear and greed, most notable among counterproductive emotions where money is the object of human desire, can and often do compromise the capacity for rational and orderly thought» Frank Martin

HGI may provide us with the power of knowledge and the opportunity for attaining a new and unprecedented level of human health, but it may also provide us with opportunities to exercise our greed and shortsightedness so as to open up new depths of human injustice and misery.

A world rotted with greed of every kind needs to know that what Jesus Christ never experienced is not, and can not be essential to human fulfilment.»

To blame the worlds problems on Religion instead of human error, greed and corruption, and warmongering, is indeed naive.

The second is consumer capitalism, the intricate socio - economic system that taps the human drives of individual gain and greed, rewarding incentive and encouraging participation in the system by the prospect of increased consumption of pleasurable goods or services and access to otherwise restricted activities.

Today, as in the eighth century before Christ, we find greed, exploitation, callous indifference to human need, and vast amounts of conflict and strife between nations and social groups.

«Can human nature which has been so long conditioned by the stimuli of capitalism,» asked the CENTURY, «discipline itself while still subject to the same stimuli, to the point of curtailing its greed for profits when profits are to be had?»

The main point of all my writing on this subject has been to raise our sights above what Pope John Paul II called «economism» — a view of economies driven solely by a materialist, economic understanding of self - interest, the profit motive, cupidity, and greed, and a denial of all the nobler human aspirations.

Indeed, and one thinks of the catastrophic threat posed by our all - too - human anger, bitterness, greed, lust, and will to power.

Jesus is very clear about how his followers are to behave: They are not to participate in the divine wrath or war against other nations, but war against hypocrisy, greed, cruelty and injustice — war against all demonic systems that pervert the humanity of human beings.

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.

We have become aware of ecological damage and the disintegration caused in an obvious manner by human folly, human greed, and human heedlessness.

Every institution of human society is wounded and lessened by the disharmony and greeds of sin - that «law within my members» that contradicts the Unity - Law, «the law of God», which being a Law of Life and working only to the fulfilment of life, «delights me according to my inward man» (Rom.

News reports of the last several months freshly impress upon the mind the bright prospects for the human future now that science, greed, and justice have joined forces against the wickedness of the cigarette industry.

The answers will touch on slavery, colonialism, modern day corruption, crime and drug addiction, the lack of equity in international development, human ignorance, greed, and many other things.

It's jungle out there... poverty and starvation is the base of all filths to nations on earth and if those two were conquered and human greed was controlled am sure peace will find it way back to earth once again if ever it did happen before?

To reject materialism, greed, sensualism, militarism, power, status and the American way of life, and to affirm peace, justice, the unity of all peoples, the sanctity of human life, human rights and equal economic opportunity, is to be radically different in world view and action from the world around us.

The war that is open to Jesus» followers is not war against other nations, but war against hypocrisy and greed and cruelty and injustice, war against all the demonic systems and powers that cripple and cramp and pervert the humanity of human beings.

If lust for material acquisition can be tempered with love for one's fellow human beings and accountability to God, it becomes possible to deal with the problem of greed effectively.33

So, God gave his children, the Humans, one species of millions, the ability to rise above all reason to destroy the planet they live on while simultaneously destroying themselves with all of the diseases they generate through their greed, gluttony and careless (or carefree) disregard for the environment.

One of the inclinations of human nature is to want more and more (greed).

It does not cheer the simple competitive individualism that may be born of greed or may be born of altruism — that offers so much short - term opportunity for managerial zealots and contains so much long - term threat of human debris and loss of community.

Today however many knowledgeable people are saying that many of the high - tech developments have produced technological systems in which the mechanical - materialist view of reality, human greed and ecological destruction are built in; and that therefore a new paradigm of development with technologies integrated with a more holistic understanding of human personhood and peoplehood and recognizing the organic natural and spiritual dimensions of human community are called for.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Only the rebirth of compassion — for ourselves, for each other, for the planet — has the power to enrich and heal our ecologically fragile world reeling from human greed and exploitation.

The conditions that make human trafficking possible and profitable arise not just in the poor countries that supply slaves but wherever the demand for unprotected labor is outmatched only by the wealth and greed of those who pay for it.

Negative freedom alone, according to Hart, made possible the unbridled greed exhibited by late modern capitalism, and led to the «exploitation of material and human resources on an unprecedentedly massive scale.»

The con man achieves his end by exploiting the streak of dishonest greed that is present in most human beings.

Oh and regarding «greed», this is just another human trait, we all try to grow out of when we get older, some people though, never seem to grow up in mind.

The simple pages of Genesis reveal in sheer majesty both the original plan of God, and the qualities of human nature in that beginning, and what could, and did befall if man ate of the tree of the experience of sin: the harmony with God is destroyed, and the tyrannical power of the soul in man, if man adores himself as his sole centre of life and meaning, is to bring into the flesh a storm of unruly desire and addictive greed.

All distortions of creation, compounded by human violence, disobedience and greed, will have to be redeemed in Christ (Rev. 8:13 - 28).