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• Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Gay

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• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Men, Law

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• If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

  Matt Chandler

  Coward, Gone, Pulpit

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• The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Men, Misanthrope, Solitary

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• The people will have no need to change their place of concourse; where of old they were wont to sacrifice cattle to demons, thither let them continue to resort on the day of the Saint to whom the Church is dedicated, and slay their beasts, no longer as a sacrifice to demons, but for a social meal in honour of Him whom they now worship.

  Pope Gregory I

  Sacrifice, People, Scary

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• Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Eye, Men

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• The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Symphony

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• Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Sorrow, Too Much

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote”, p.71

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• Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast
  each with a splendor
  which man in all his vileness cannot
  set aside; each with an excellence!

  Marianne Moore

  Moon, Night, Men

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.118, Penguin

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• Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Keys, Two

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• Nor bird nor beast
  Could make me wish for anything this day,
  Being old, but that the old alone might die,
  And that would be against God's Providence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Bird, Wish, Would Be

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Feelings

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• The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

  Woody Allen

  Excellence, Body, Lions

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Girl, Average

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
  Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
  The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
  Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

  Allen Tate

  Eye, Moon, Feet

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.91, Macmillan

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• The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Men, Animal

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• We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Animal, Thinking, Beats

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Men, Imagination

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• The terrible beast, that no one may understand,
  Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

  Louise Bogan

  May, Sides, Submission

  Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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• The elephant, the huge old beast,
  is slow to mate

  D. H. Lawrence

  Elephants, Mates, Huge

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.219, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Thinking, Greed

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Civilization, Mind, Progress

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• The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

  Philip Sidney

  Sorrow, Violence, Firsts

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.256, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

  Quintus Ennius

  Apes

  As quoted in "De Natura Deorum" by Cicero, Book I, Chapter XXXV,

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• Praise Him, each savage furious beast
  That on His stores do daily feast;
  And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
  Your weary knees to your Creator bow.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Savages, Knees, Bows

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