Beast Quote by Francis Bacon

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

— E. W. Howe

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own…

— Stanley Kubrick

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

— Marek Edelman

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

— Benjamin Rush

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

— Plutarch

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

“No one is despised by others unless he be previously despised by himself: a groveling and abject mind may fall an easy prey to…

— Seneca

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed…

— Hans Askenasy

It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do…

— Thomas Merton