Quotes with beast

  • 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.
  • There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
  • Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
  • Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
  • Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
  • The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
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  • Voltaire The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Algernon Sydney 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
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Buddha 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
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Thomas Hardy Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Aristotle Either a beast or a god.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Algernon Sidney 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
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Zora Neale Hurston Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Baltasar Gracian He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Aristotle He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Samuel Johnson He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
    Othello I, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Hazlitt I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Max Muller Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
    Max Muller
    British-German orientalist and philologist (1823 - 1900)
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  • Boris Pasternak Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
    From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
    But the hunters are gaining ground;
    I've nowhere else to run.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bob Kerrey Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • William Congreve Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Josh Billings Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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