A Quote by Frederick the Great

Every man has a wild beast within him.

Frederick the Great

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Beast Beast Within Every Every Man Him Man Wild Wild Beast Within

Quote Author

Frederick the Great
Royalty
January 24, 1712 - August 17, 1786

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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.

George R. R. Martin

The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

Theodore Roosevelt

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Theodore White

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

Gerald Hausman

Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him

Rudyard Kipling

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

Dennis Rodman

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Albert Camus

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Unknown

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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.

George MacDonald

Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.