Beast Quote by John Locke

A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail…

— Boris Pasternak

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

— Thomas Hobbes

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings…

— Carl Jung

“Blind adherence to an absolute leader, especially one who permits violence, hands followers a license to unleash hidden, prohibited lusts and passions usually kept…

— Chris Hedges

“it seems to me that this kind of hero—privileged, self-assured, the perpetual heir to the kingdom, and not averse to violence—has been and continues…

— David Elliott

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

— William Shakespeare

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a…

— John Stuart Mill

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a…

— John Stuart Mill

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato