Bestial Quotes
41 quotes by 35 authors
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there…
— Erik Dammann
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural…
— Cesare Pavese
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
— Charles Dickens
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
— Oscar Wilde
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I…
— Edward Abbey
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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
— Marianne Moore
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times…
— Emile M. Cioran
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To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a…
— Paula Rego
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My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered…
— Che Guevara
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The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
— William Butler Yeats
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only…
— Carl Jung
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation.…
— Robert Trout
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the…
— Ida B. Wells
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
— Ida B. Wells
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
— Primo Levi
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In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
— Malcolm De Chazal
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