Beasts Quotes

306 quotes by 245 authors

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we… — Theodore Roosevelt
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that… — Theodore Roosevelt
We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and… — John Muir
Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts.… — Jawaharlal Nehru
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. — St. Jerome
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the… — Charles de Lint
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling… — Marcus Aurelius
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? — Confucius
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. — Doris Day
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. — Elizabeth I
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised… — Jane Fonda
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they… — Charles Kingsley
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our… — Jeffrey Kluger
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. — Edmund Leach
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it… — C.S. Lewis

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