A Quote by Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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

Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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Jean-Francois de La Harpe
French - Playwright
November 20, 1739 - February 11, 1803

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

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

Theodore White

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

Dennis Rodman

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

On just a personal level, since I was little, I've loved fairytales, especially this one, because it is about what goes into making a beast a beast. Do you start as a beast? Do you turn into a beast because of the way that people treat you? I think it's something that is really universal and hit a chord with me when I was little, and so, hopefully we can explore some of that.

Brian Wayne Peterson

This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.

Thomas Malory

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.

Andrea Dworkin

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Harry S. Truman

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

Simone Weil

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

William Shakespeare

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.