"Our civilization is still in a middle stage,……" — Theodore Dreiser
"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason."
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42 Quotes by Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser has 42 quotes on this site.
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I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do…
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We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of.…
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The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.
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Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
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We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument,…
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Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this…
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Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and…
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter…
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If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to…
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Shakespeare, I come !
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A thought will color a world for us.
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Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of…
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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