Beast Quotes - Page 2

• Every man has a wild beast within him.

  Frederick The Great

  Men, Every Man, Beast Within

  Letter to Voltaire (1759)

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• What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Selfish, Men, Law

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.14, VM eBooks

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• Either a beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  God

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

  Brad Pitt

  Emphasis, Get Away, Wrong Things

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• Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

  Gregory Peck

  Workout, Attitude, Bodybuilding

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• When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Basketball, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

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• I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

  Roger Zelazny

  Cousin, Thinking, Enjoy

  "The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber".

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• 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.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Civilization, Intuition, Reason

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Liberty, Society

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• Man differs more from man than man from beast

  John Wilmot

  Men, Rochester

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.103, Taylor & Francis

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• Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

  Timothy Spall

  Imagination, Cages

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• No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  World, Earth, Natural

  "The Holy Earth".

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• It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

  Johann Most

  Men, Order, Hunger

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• When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Literature, Behave

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• What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Sweet, Law, Bird

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• I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

  George Washington Carver

  Life, Flower, Hypocrite

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• A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Men, Rude, Devil

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• What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beauty, Animal, Ugly

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• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Race, Lust

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Solitude, Sage, Brutes

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dialect, Mark, Terrible

  Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) ch. 20

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• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Courage, Integrity, Conscience

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Running, Divorce

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

  Martin Luther

  Wish, Satan, Burden

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