Beast Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

“The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest…

— Joseph Needham

A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her…

— Taylor Wang

“For Lao-tzu’s Taoism is the philosophical equivalent of jujitsu, or judo, which means the way of gentleness. Its basis is the principle of Tao,…

— Alan Wilson Watts

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

— Anonymous

The Chinese have a saying, ¦ Beware the man with the Buddhas mouth and the snakes heart. This is the perfect example of that.

— LL Cool J

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another…

— Jung Chang

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

— Brigitte Bardot

“Many of the Chinese medical texts dating back from 2,000 years ago lament the ills of 'modern times' and allude to the traditional 'good…

— Daniel Reid

“The human species is an animal species without very much variation within it, and it is idle and futile to imagine that a voyage…

— Christopher Hitchens

“At a more serious level, the desirability of aligning our actions with the more powerful laws of nature, society, and psychology, in order to…

— Clayton M. Christensen

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely…

— Rainer Maria Rilke