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Quotes About Jackals

The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it;
~ Julian Barnes
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
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
He was a follower of a teacher from Galilee who taught that peace was the only hope for mankind. Without it, we were like the jackals in the desert, nothing more. Beside me
~ Alice Hoffman
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. I need to bear this in mind.
~ Marilynne Robinson
La luna risplende sui cadaveri dei vostri compagni. Gli sciacalli portano nella tana le loro teste perché vi giochino i cuccioli.»
~ Jonathan Stroud
Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
~ H.L. Mencken
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!
~ Bram Stoker
Still, and even so; if it's a choice between lions and wolves and jackals and foxes, give me lions any day. You can't ever justify what they do, but they've got style.
~ K.J. Parker
All these represent humanity in general, totally enraged, demented, vengeful, spiteful, cheap denizens of our culture, vultures, jackals, sharks, suckerfish, stingrays, lice.
~ Bukowski Charles
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
~ John Perkins
At night the jackals came and ate their feet, and the next morning crows flew down and ate their eyes.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Democracy is a form of religion, it is the worship of jackals by jack asses.
~ H. L. Mencken
JENNET What can you see Out there? THOMAS Out here? Out here is a sky so gentle Five stars are ventured on it. I can see The sky's pale belly glowing and growing big, Soon to deliver the moon. And I can see A glittering smear, the snail-trail of the sun Where it crawled with its golden shell into the hills. A darkening land sunken into prayer Lucidly in dewdrops of one syllable, Nunc dimittis. I see twilight, madam. JENNET But what can you hear? THOMAS The howl of human jackals-.
~ Christopher Fry
He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster.
~ Pat Frank
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
~ Jeremiah 9:11
Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
~ Jeremiah 10:22
“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
~ Jeremiah 49:33