Beasts Quotes

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

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

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

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.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'

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

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

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

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

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.