Quotes About Beasts

So long as we hold hatred for anyone," said Mr. Chisholm, marveling at his new thoughts, "we are not men at all. We are beasts. It is against the dignity of men that we should hate. It is against the ordinances of God.

No hay nada más noble que la ley, pues distingue a los hombres de las bestias, porque éstas se rigen tan sólo por el instinto y el hombre es gobernado por las leyes de su espíritu y por tanto es libre.

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tuawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent Animals to tell man that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn . .. for all things speak of Tuawa. -Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnees Tribe to Natalie Curtis, circa 190441

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.

Debéis, pues, saber que hay dos formas de combatir: una con las leyes, otra con la fuerza. La primera es propia del hombre, la segunda de las bestias. Pero como muchas veces no basta la primera, conviene recurrir a la segunda.

You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second.

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don't they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!

My life is blood because my world is beasts.

I like ducks." Jem observed diplomatically. "Esspecially the ones in Hyde Park." He glanced side ways at Will; both boys were sitting at the edge of a high table, thier legs dangling over the side. "Remember when you tried to convince me to feed pultry pie the the mallards in the park to see if you couls breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

C6 Now Vico here agrees with Aristotle. When he calls the world of nations the world of men, he means that what were beasts in the world of nature become men in the world of nations, and it is by the becoming of the world of nations that they become men. Or, as he puts it otherwise, in a sense they make the world of nations, and in the same sense they make themselves by making it [367, 520, 692].

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

Yet he found an excuse for drunkenness which few men but he could have found. Stockdale (Memoirs, ii. 189) says that he heard Mrs. Williams 'wonder what pleasure men can take in making beasts of themselves. I wonder, Madam, replied Johnson, that you have not penetration enough to see the strong inducement to this excess; for he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.' [1278]

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

We are all descended from monsters.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

And what greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into those footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men?