Beast Quotes

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. (Plutarch)
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. View quote
Aristotle
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. View quote
Aristotle
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. View quote
Ouida
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. View quote
Ben Jonson
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. View quote
Francis Bacon
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast. View quote
Richard Stallman
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (Pierre Trudeau)
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. View quote
Voltaire
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. View quote
Anna Sewell
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. View quote
Axel Munthe
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. View quote
Germaine Greer
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. View quote
William Hazlitt
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. View quote
Cicero
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. View quote
George MacDonald
The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy. View quote
Anton Chekhov
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast. (William Shakespeare)
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out. View quote
Tony Blair
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast. View quote
Elie Ducommun
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face. View quote
David Zindell