Beasts Quotes

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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

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

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

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

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

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

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.