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• He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

  Dr. Seuss

  Pain, Men, Fear And Loathing

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• The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

  Ben Nicholson

  Greed, Guy, Soul

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• I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, Money, Men

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• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

  Anna Sewell

  Kindness, Animal, Men

  Anna Sewell (2011). “Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.51, Penguin

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• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Sleep, Elephants, Friendly

  Pierre Trudeau's address to the Press Club in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1969.

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• Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.

  Algernon Sidney

  Men, Vanity, Roots

  Algernon Sidney (1794). “Life, Memoirs,&c. of Algernon Sydney”, p.112

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• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  Axel Munthe

  Inspirational, Freedom, Animal

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• No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Savages

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.1137, Simon and Schuster

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• The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

  Johnny Cash

  Bars, Frail, Caged

  Song: The Beast In Me, Album: American Recordings, 1994

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• You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

  Paul Stanley

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tired, Men, Water

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• Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

  William Shakespeare

  Wicked, Charity, Wit

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.100, Classic Books Company

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• The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Cities, Wild Beasts, Truest

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• The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Palaces, Fit

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

  Herman Melville

  Menace, Aggression, Ifs

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile”, p.246

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• I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

  Charles Dickens

  Philosophical, Heart, Men

  Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.4045, e-artnow

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• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

  Demosthenes

  Brother, Ideas, Differences

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• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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• Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.

  Emma Goldman

  Power, Reality, Thinking

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.487, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reflection, Men, Names

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.2

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• People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Animal, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Men, Air

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1217, Oxford University Press

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• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

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• Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ignorance, Dwelling Place, Darkness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2589, Bible Study Steps

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