Top 133 Predatory Quotes & Sayings

Congressman Watt has a long history of advocating against predatory lending and the mortgage practices that caused millions of families to lose their homes.

Oh, Gods." His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.

I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers.

States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

People have been savaged by a predatory economic and political system, and some are turning to Trump. Unfortunately, Trump is just more of the same.

I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

When you start traveling and thinking from a global perspective, you realize how small the planet is and how predatory we are to its ecology.

Like Hollywood, Washington, and New York City, Silicon Valley is in a moral crisis after a litany of revelations about predatory behavior by powerful men.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

My father has fought to protect people from predatory pharmaceutical companies and to make sure drug payments and kickbacks to doctors are disclosed.

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.

I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

Our kids should be leaving school ready for success, not paying for the misconduct of predatory institutions.

Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.

On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination.

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.

Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.

There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people who are locked into predatory student loan debt for whom there is no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy that we have: this predatory Wall Street driven financialized low-wage service industry economy.

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns.

We will trade freely with free nations and not spend our time chasing trade deals with predatory countries like communist China.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.

In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was right. We haven't tried hard enough.

I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.

Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

While payday loans are often the only source of credit for low-income Americans, these lenders are notorious for predatory practices that cause borrowers to fall deeper into debt.