"We must beware the revenge of the starved……" — J. B. Priestley

"We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison."

— J. B. Priestley

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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley has 61 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that…
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way…
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like…
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a…
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking…
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If…
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were…
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign…
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds…

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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