Bestial Quotes

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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. — Eldridge Cleaver
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
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
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. — Oscar Wilde
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
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. — Marianne Moore
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
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
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and bloodâ€¦ Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered… — Che Guevara
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. — William Butler Yeats
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
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
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
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. — Ida B. Wells
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. — Bertolt Brecht
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
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. — Primo Levi
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. — Malcolm De Chazal

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