Beast Quote by Boris Pasternak

“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail…

— Boris Pasternak

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth

— Boris Pasternak

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense.…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous…

— Abraham Cowley

It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be…

— Roy Fuller

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is no beast more cruel than man.

— Leonid Andreyev

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

— Francis Picabia

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

— Plutarch

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive…

— Arundhati Roy

The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God,…

— A. B. Simpson