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Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil. — George Whitefield

When he is best he is a little worst than a man, and when he is worst he is a little better than a beast. — William Shakespeare

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

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow. — Mahatma Gandhi

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy ... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest. — Nas

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows. — John Donne

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. — Winston Churchill

Man is neither angel nor beast, and it is unfortunately the case that anyone trying to act the angel acts the beast. — Blaise Pascal

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. — Baltasar Gracian

The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature. — Oliver Goldsmith

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

The beast plopped into the chair, the wood groaning, and, in a flash of white light, turned into a golden-haired man. I — Sarah J. Maas

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. — D.H. Lawrence

Some poems are like the Centaurs
a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive. — Al Purdy

Let others take up my madness
And all that went with it.
Without madness what is man
But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds? — Fernando Pessoa

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast. — Francis Bacon

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

I was sorry for her, as I am for any who are evicted from their haunts by the younger and stronger - always a sad occasion for man or beast. — E.B. White

But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed. Neither do I talk in vain. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Leave your books alone. Aren't you ashamed? Man is a wild beast, and wild beasts don't read. — Nikos Kazantzakis

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world. — Henry Arthur Jones

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

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. — Ivo Andric

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast from the creation of the world. — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast. — Chris Jericho

There is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes. — Margaret Cavendish

Let every man and every beast - every creature that has the breath of the Lord - praise the Eternal! Praise the Eternal! — Anonymous

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. — Henry George

This beast was not a man, not a lesser faerie. He was one of the High Fae, one of their ruling nobility: beautiful, lethal, and merciless. — Sarah J. Maas

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal. — Joseph Goebbels

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast — Ruskin Bond

The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over. — Annette Dumbach

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. — William Shakespeare

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. — George Herbert

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. — William Shakespeare

Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of Man a beast, and he will appear to be God. — Kedar Joshi

Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman
a rope over an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. — Joseph De Maistre

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me. — Charles Dickens

The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen. — Guru Arjan Dev

We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron. — George R R Martin

Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast. — Blaise Pascal

If a man is a beast, he's a beast in his heart, and that's not the kind of heart that beats in you. — Dean Koontz

I need no other man because my beautiful beast loves me. He is my equal, and mine. As I am his. — Amelia Hutchins

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more: — William Shakespeare

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have. — Mahatma Gandhi

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast. — William Shakespeare

Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger
but not exultation — Howard Fast

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man. — Timothy Leary

A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat — David Mitchell

Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal). — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day. — Felix O. Hartmann

If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so. — Rachel L. Demeter

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

Opportunities present themselves only to the patient, man and beast, and only they take advantage of those opportunities. — Jiang Rong

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. — Ouida

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. — Robert Browning

My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system. — John Fante

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a
beast! — William Shakespeare