Beasts Quotes

• The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon , the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Kingdoms
  • Represented
  • Beasts

• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

  

  Confucius
  • Respect
  • Feelings
  • Beasts

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

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Sorrow
  • Melancholy
  • Beasts

• No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Creature
  • Savage
  • Hide

• I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Romance
  • Controls
  • Armor

• What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

  

  Ali Sina
  • Conscience
  • Beasts
  • Humanness

• I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Beasts
  • Corset

• There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

  

  Edward Topsell
  • Wisdom
  • Creature
  • Demonstration

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