Beast Quotes
880 quotes by 628 authors
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Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much…
— Leigh Hunt
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It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time…
— Blaise Pascal
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Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.
— Jerry Falwell
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If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks
— Wallace Smith Broecker
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I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said,…
— Oliver Stone
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It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured…
— Roy Fuller
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There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast.…
— Josemaria Escriva
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We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and…
— C.S. Lewis
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and…
— Thomas Browne
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without…
— Luigi Pirandello
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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in…
— William Hazlitt
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
— Seneca the Younger
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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
— William Shakespeare
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The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and…
— Andrea Dworkin
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War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a…
— Kate Forsyth
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