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

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

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

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
Alfred Noyes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

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

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