A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
George MacDonald

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
Algernon Sydney

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

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
Leonard Maltin

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.
Mike Judge

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy

Every man has a wild beast within him.
Frederick The Great

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
Isabella Bird

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning Hamilton

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
David Herbert Lawrence

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
Al Purdy

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.
Algernon Sidney

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
W. L. George

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
James Hogg