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Beast Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.…
- The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
- The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.
- The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
- By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the…
- If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
More Beast Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do. — Brigitte Bardot
- Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. — Aeschylus
- I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset. — Cate Blanchett
- We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white… — Daniel Boone
- Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes… — Robert Browning
- As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses… — A. S. Byatt
- In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
- A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. — Albert Camus