(148 quotes found)
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
Confucius
“Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.”
Chanakya
“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear”
Zora Neale Hurston
“The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places”
Baltasar Gracian
“The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars”
Johnny Cash
“There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: / A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; / A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.”
Bible
“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.”
Charles Kingsley
“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. (Revelations 5:8)”
“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.”
William Shakespeare
“The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.”
Voltaire
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