"We cannot suppose therefore that God has made……" — Thomas Clarkson
"We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour."
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8 Quotes by Thomas Clarkson
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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
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It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them,…
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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
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There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
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Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that…
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Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be…
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More Beast Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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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.
— Cate Blanchett
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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…
— A. S. Byatt
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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