Beast Quotes
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A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.
William Arthur Ward
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.
Diane Ackerman
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Seneca the Younger
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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
John Stuart Blackie
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You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.
Steve Chabot
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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
Mahatma Gandhi
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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
William Shakespeare
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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.
Plato
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
William Golding
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On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.
Elton Welsby
