A Quote by Herbert Spencer
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
Luke Cage is a beast, man. You can't take that guy down no matter what.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.
Every man has a wild beast within him.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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.
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.
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.
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