Beast Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine Download Open image “Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.” — Alphonse de Lamartine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barbarous Ransomed Beast Beasts Cultivated Born Born Barbarous Conditions Cultivation Man Born Men Ransomed
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys — Alphonse De Lamartine Copy Share Image
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that,… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied. — Krystal Ball Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image