Best 302 quotes in «beast quotes» category

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

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

The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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.

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

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

There is no beast more cruel than man.

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

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

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.

The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Train like a beauty look like a beast

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

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

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

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.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.