Beast Quotes - Page 35

• Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

  Steven Erikson

  Ambition, Law, Humanity

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• Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Chloroform, Fit

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• Nor love they least
  Who strike with right good will
  To vanquish ill
  And fight God's battle upward from the beast.

  Richard Hovey

  Fighting, Battle, Vanquish

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

  Tim Powers

  World, Drink, Unlikely

  Tim Powers (2016). “The Ghosts of the Past: Three historical novels by Tim Powers”, p.186, Atlantic Books

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• We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear.

  Che Guevara

  War, Moving, Home

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Rome, Judging

  "How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture".

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• The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

  Herbert Spencer

  Work Out, Perfect, Suffering

  Herbert Spencer (1851). “Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed”, p.416

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• It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Song, Eye, Men

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.

  Rikki Rockett

  Brother, Zero, Animal

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• Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

  Henry George

  Men, Desire, He Man

  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, War, Kentucky

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books

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• Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy religious freedom. Any church in America that dares to preach what the Bible says about soul-damning, nation-destroying moral filth of the vile homosexual beasts among us, loses all Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and speech rights.

  Fred Phelps

  Religious, America, Rights

  Letter to Boris Yeltsin, 1997.

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• The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.

  Leos Carax

  Real, Fate, Together

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• Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

  Robert Plant

  Beautiful, Animal, Zeppelins

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• I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

  Robin Ince

  Men, Bags, Weight

  Robin Ince (2010). “Robin Ince's Bad Book Club: One man's quest to uncover the books that taste forgot”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Girl, Kings, Men

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of a tree into school. No one was pleased. I got two weeks detention because I was 45 minutes late and had made a big mess of leaves and soil all over the building. All the kids just laughed at me.

  Mika

  School, Kids, Two

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• Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

  Men, Superstitions, Burden

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• There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

  Edward Topsell

  Elephants, World, Almighty

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• No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Christian, Dealings, Wild Beasts

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• Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

  Heather Morris

  Nike, Feels Just, How You Feel

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

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• Our fans are like rabid beasts that rub themselves with the nectar that is 'Psych'.

  James Roday

  Psych, Fans, Nectar

  "James Roday Answers 'Psych' Fan Questions". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.starpulse.com. June 17, 2009.

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• A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

  William Henry Hudson

  Animal, Equality, Men

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

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• You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.

  Ruby Wax

  Running, Heart, Needs

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