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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. -- H. L. Mencken
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals. -- Aldous Huxley
If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. -- Elbert Hubbard
[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals... -- Conrad Black
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war. -- Barbara Tuchman
Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. -- Herman Melville
Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS? -- David Letterman
It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years. -- Tipu Sultan
I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do. -- David Brooks
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It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. -- Ernest Hemingway
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag. -- Idries Shah
As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals. -- Steven Bochco
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states. -- Noam Chomsky
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth. -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's. -- Marilynne Robinson
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. -- Cyril Connolly
Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds -- M.F. Moonzajer
I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt. -- Rick Riordan
Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothersâ?? broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. -- Aberjhani

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