Beasts Quotes

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius

Men, Respect, Feelings

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

Struggle, Same, Cannot

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Woman, Become

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire

Greatest, Fight, Wild

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach

Men, Food, Show

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine

Life, Pain, Action

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
Desmond Tutu

Human, Racism, Unfair

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Men, Away, Themselves

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day

Women, Men, True

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid

Peace, Men, Anger

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I

Nature, Fear, Small

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes

Minds, Facts, Horror

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus

Men, Passion, Victory

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan Swift

Life, Human, Find

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
Brigitte Bardot

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
Charles Kingsley

Special, Used, While

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
Cate Blanchett

Strange, Likes, Corset

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

Financial, Finally, Worries

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Jeffrey Kluger

Love, Family, Eat

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Norman Mailer

Worth, Culture, Risks

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
Luigi Pirandello

Life, Live, True

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
Roger Zelazny

Enjoy, Relatives, Constantly

That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.
Rob Sheffield

True, Become, Secret

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
Willard Gaylin

Human, Humanity, Same

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Daniel Boone

Death, Daily, Country

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
Tanith Lee

Women, Men, Strong

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Jeffery Deaver

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.
Michael Ende

Safe, Forest, Howling

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
Plotinus

Between, Mankind, Gods

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