A Quote by George R. R. Martin
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
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Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.
Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.
A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
Every man has a wild beast within him.
O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.
As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.
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