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Quotes About Beasts

In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.
~ Ted Sarandos
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
~ Thomas Clarkson
They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.
~ Richard Adams
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
~ Norman Mailer
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
~ William Shakespeare
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
~ William Shakespeare
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
~ David Quammen
Je crois que la vraie différence avec les bêtes, poursuivit le juge, ce n'est pas la fidélité. Le trait le plus proprement humain et qui leur fait complétement défaut, c'est un autre sentiment, que vous avez de reste. - Lequel ? - L'orgueil.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
Does God take care of beasts, and not of his more noble creature? And therefore we ought to judge charitably of the complaints of God's people which are wrung from them in such cases. Job had the esteem with God of a patient man, notwithstanding those passionate complaints.
~ Richard Sibbes
Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.
~ Roald Dahl
We were always ready for tea at any time, and especially when combined with beasts.
~ Kenneth Grahame
War's always the same! Children starve, women suffer, men lose their fortunes or turn into beasts!
~ Kenneth Roberts
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
John's call now leads directly into the heart of the drama revealed in the visions on I'attnos (12-22): the cosmic conflict between God, the heavenly woman, and her son/groom and the dragon, the beasts, and the harlot. Everything that precedes Revelation 12 is preliminary to this central drama, preparing us to see our daily struggles as part of the great conflict of the ages.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
We're all barbarians at our core. We're all savage, murderous beasts. I know I am. I'm sure you are. The only difference between us, Mr Prave, is how loudly we roar. I roar very loudly indeed. How about you? Do you think you can match me? - China
~ Derek Landy
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
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 each other.
~ Emma Goldman
Two elements are combined in our creation, the body, which we have in common with the beasts; and reason and good judgement, which we share with the gods. Most of us tend toward the former connection, miserable and mortal though it is, whereas only a few favour this holy and blessed alliance.
~ Epictetus
Two elements are combined in our creation, the body, which we have in common with the beasts; and reason and good judgement, which we share with the gods.
~ Epictetus
I've never been into monster movies, not my cup of tea.
~ Alexandre Desplat
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are;Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
~ Robert Browning
For the vast majority of beasts on this planet, stress is about a short-term crisis, after which it's either over with or you're over with. When we sit around and worry about stressful things, we turn on the same physiological responses—but they are potentially a disaster when provoked chronically
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Without the extension and/or transcendence of self-love, survival is not the kind of survival that sets humans apart from the beasts (and--never forget it--the angels).
~ Zygmunt Bauman
To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine.
~ Zygmunt Bauman