Top 501 Beasts Quotes & Sayings

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting after their labors, Each in stall with his neighbors, But man with goad and whip, Breaks up their fellowship, Shouts in their silky ears Filling their soul with fears. When he has plowed the land, He says: "they understand." But the beasts in stall together, Freed from the yoke and tether, Say as the torn flank smoke: "Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke."

What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

Men practice war; beasts do not.

I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.

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

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.

When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

Have you ever asked yourself,do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? I've seen things, angel. There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill thier own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don't they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work! And the worst part is, it's almost impossible to retrieve a soul that has been ripped away. Almost." He gave Akiva a keen look."But it can be done, if ever...if ever you decide to go looking for yours."___Izil

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

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run downby much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

Can't all beasts be tamed?

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

All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.

We and the beasts are kin.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

We're social beasts, and we draw society around us.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!

A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

I didn't work with any of the beasts [ "Fantastic Beasts"], I didn't have much green screen, but I loved working on it. I'm excited to see it myself.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

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

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don’t give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

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