Beast Quotes - Page 33

• I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

  Anna Sewell

  Horse, Passion, Character

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• Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for its life. The whole of the being of the animal is thrown into that fight, without reserve. When you say that the fight lacks a dimension of intellectual or imaginative horror, I agree. It is not the mode of being animals to have an intellectual horror: their whole being is in the living flesh...I urge you to walk, flank to flank, beside the beast that is prodded down the chute to his executioner.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Fighting, Animal, Hands

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.65, Princeton University Press

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• Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

  Francis of Assisi

  Loss, Pet, Earth

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• It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Memorable, Men

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Sir Thomas Hanmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.9

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• That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets
  Got a new condo moving to the beach
  Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib
  Got damn man she's beauty and the beast

  Drake

  Beach, Moving, Men

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• During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

  Alexander Alekhine

  Competition, Chess, Monk

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• The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Animal, Ideas

  "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

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• Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

  Leigh Hunt

  Animal, People, Office

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• It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Ignorant

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• Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.

  Jerry Falwell

  Heaven, Satanic, Celebration

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• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Lying, Science, Men

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• Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks

  Wallace Smith Broecker

  Climate, Sticks, Angry

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• I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.

  Oliver Stone

  Weed, Marijuana, Differences

  "Oliver Stone: Marijuana saved me from ‘becoming a beast’ in Vietnam" by Stephen C. Webster, www.rawstory.com. June 29, 2012.

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• It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

  Roy Fuller

  Men, Messages, Vegetarian

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• There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

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• We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Angel, Animal, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.215, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Animal, Reptiles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Horse, Real, Quiet

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• Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.

  Lil Wayne

  Want, Cages, You Want Me

  "Song: "No Love" (Album:"Recovery")". 2010.

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• Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

  Aristotle

  Dog, Needs

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• It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

  Rebecca Wells

  Life, Sisterhood, Inspire

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

  Isaac Watts

  Friday, Sacrifice, Blood

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• Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

  George Lois

  Creativity, Inspire, Sparks

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• Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Reality, Hands

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• .. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

  Aristotle

  Men, Law, Political

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