Beasts Quotes

306 quotes by 245 authors

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand… — Caitlin Thomas
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul… — Paul Verlaine
And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great… — Louis Aragon
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in… — Demosthenes
The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts. — Ursula Hegi
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among… — Dean Koontz
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women,… — Tanith Lee
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction… — Stephen Jay Gould
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts,… — Alexander Pope
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a… — May Kendall
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume.… — Tom Robbins
Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all… — Steven Erikson
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live. — Clarence Darrow
Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for. — Tim Powers
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had… — Francis Schaeffer
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand… — Herbert Spencer
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen… — Patrick Henry
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who… — Rikki Rockett
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone

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