Beast Quotes - Page 9

• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Racism, Slavery

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.51, Random House

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• The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

  Voltaire

  Fighting, History, Architecture

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• The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.

  Ellen G. White

  Names, World, Lines

  Ellen G. White (1994*). “Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

  Robert Winston

  Feet, Immature, Meals

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

  Geoff Mulgan

  People, Tasks, Needs

  "The UK economy can still create jobs" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2012.

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• They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lonely, Space, Earth

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Aug 25, 2016

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• And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Lasts, Hours, Born

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

  John Locke

  Men, Should, Irrational

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.532

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• The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Men, Jail

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.68, Ballantine Books

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• Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Self, Healthy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Mind, Age

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?

  L. Frank Baum

  Voice, Spokes, Terrible

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 1 of 2. the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy”, p.53, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

  James Joyce

  Food, Heart, Fowl

  Ulysses (1922) p. 53

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• Ain't fit for man nor beast

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Fit

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• They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Animal, Imagination

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.97, Penguin

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• What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Men, Before And After

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 32

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• Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

  P. D. James

  Past, Men, Without Hope

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Jan 01, 2017

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• He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Fire, Air

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.757, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

  Ernest Gaines

  Would Be, Levels, Dies

  Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.65, Serpent's Tail

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• What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.

  David Almond

  Angel, Bird, Like You

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• I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.

  Alan Moore

  Hate, Stupid, Thinking

  "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Volume 2, issue 2, People of Other Lands,

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• The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Journey, Roaring

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.109, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Badgers, Don't Change

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.49, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.

  Christopher Moore

  Dear

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.67, Zondervan

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• I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

  Dylan Thomas

  Writing, Angel, Self

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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