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  • Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay. -- John Gay
  • And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will . -- Thomas Hobbes
  • Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. -- Juvenal
  • Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup. -- Damien Chazelle
  • We Are Always Scared of Wild Beasts, Yet We Are Unaware About The Wildest Beast Within Us Which Does More Harm Than The Ordinary One. -- Muhammad Imran Hasan
  • Walls have ears.Doors have eyes.Trees have voices.Beasts tell lies.Beware the rain.Beware the snow.Beware the manYou think you know.-Songs of Sapphique -- Catherine Fisher
  • I didn't work with any of the beasts [ "Fantastic Beasts"], I didn't have much green screen, but I loved working on it. I'm excited to see it myself. -- Colin Farrell
  • There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant. -- Edward Topsell
  • Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose! -- Gangrel
  • Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on. -- Robert Southey
  • The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts. -- Thomas Hobbes
  • Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don't give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world. -- Vishwas Mudagal
  • His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. -- Idi Amin
  • 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. -- Ali Sina
  • 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
  • Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. -- Plotinus
  • I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. -- Jules Renard
  • Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? -- Confucius
  • A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason. -- Jack Hanna
  • Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. -- Max Lerner
  • Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. -- Michael Ende
  • The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. -- Voltaire
  • The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts. -- Peter Abelard
  • Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. -- Elizabeth I
  • What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. -- Chief Seattle
  • I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ. -- Ignatius of Antioch
  • 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
  • Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ. -- Ignatius of Antioch
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! -- Ted Danson
  • 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
  • Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • 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
  • 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
  • May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ. -- Ignatius of Antioch
  • 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
  • Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. -- Jules Verne
  • Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. -- Venerable Bede
  • We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Can't all beasts be tamed? -- Robin McKinley
  • We and the beasts are kin. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Men practice war; beasts do not. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Young children are such nasty little beasts! -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Monsters are beasts that cannot be tamed. -- Elora Hansen
  • As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. -- Dante Alighieri
  • Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -- William Shakespeare
  • All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. -- George Herbert
  • The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs. -- Menachem Begin
  • We are the living graves of murdered beasts. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • When in doubt, follow the senses of beasts. -- F.T. McKinstry
  • My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it. -- Charles Baudelaire
  • Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. -- Alexander Pope
  • The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us. -- Quintus Ennius
  • The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts. -- Ursula Hegi
  • Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. -- Ovid
  • Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure. -- Cleanthes
  • ...there are plenty of attractive beasts in the world. -- Andrea Cremer
  • Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale -- Cassandra Clare
  • The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts. -- William Shakespeare
  • The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places. -- Baltasar Gracian
  • Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do. -- Brigitte Bardot
  • I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset. -- Cate Blanchett
  • God's and beasts, that is what our world is made of. -- Adolf Hitler
  • The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. -- John Bright
  • Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts. -- Ovid
  • The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence. -- Annie Dillard
  • Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. -- Norman Mailer
  • I am convinced that different people awaken different beasts in you. -- K.Michelle
  • In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage -- Marcelo Rios
  • I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly. -- Roger Zelazny
  • Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone. -- Lydia M. Child
  • Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts~? -- Confucius
  • The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear -- D. H. Lawrence
  • When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast. -- Herman Melville
  • Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed. -- Ben Jonson
  • From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle. -- Plato
  • When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts. -- M. F. K. Fisher
  • Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman. -- Menander
  • Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. -- C. S. Lewis
  • ...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. -- Che Guevara
  • Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth. -- Francis of Assisi
  • Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden. -- Ford Madox Ford
  • Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape. -- George Washington
  • Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts. -- C. S. Lewis
  • I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfullyâ?¦ -- Louisa May Alcott
  • We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free. -- Tupac Shakur
  • Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman. -- Menander
  • The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces. -- Rumi
  • Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. -- Geoff Mulgan
  • O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! -- William Shakespeare
  • This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark. -- Samuel Butler
  • Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. -- Norman Mailer
  • Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
  • No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other -- Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Our fans are like rabid beasts that rub themselves with the nectar that is Psych. -- James Roday
  • The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner. -- Mason Cooley
  • There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard. -- Ted Knight
  • Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. -- Ben Jonson
  • The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. -- Aristotle
  • Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. -- St. Jerome
  • Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. -- Juvenal
  • The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts. -- Heywood Broun
  • The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. -- Heywood Broun
  • People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls. -- Vladimir Korolenko
  • Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • See with your soul and not your eyesbecause to dance with the beasts youmust penetrate their disguise. -- P. C. Cast
  • Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.] -- Ovid
  • New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. -- Sri Aurobindo
  • Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings. -- Judith Lynne Hanna
  • Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms. -- Margaret Cavendish
  • It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
  • Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • [There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts. -- Winston Churchill
  • In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted -- Robert Galbraith
  • The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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