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Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. — Alphonse De Lamartine

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below — Steven Moffat

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. — William Shakespeare

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

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness. — Kedar Joshi

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 misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god ... — Aristotle.

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

Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man. — William Shakespeare

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

Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast. — Honore Daumier

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

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man. — Herman Melville

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

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo — Victor Hugo

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

Man without life companion is either god or beast. — Vikram Seth

No beast was as noisy as man. — George R R Martin

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

We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast. — Anna Sewell

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. — Marianne Moore

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free. — Alan Keyes

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

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. — Plutarch

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. — Chief Seattle

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. — Albert Camus

Man is neither angel nor beast. — Blaise Pascal

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

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

We depend on neither man nor beast to get us where we need to go. If you rely on your own two good legs, then they won't let you down. — Joseph Delaney

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

Man is a political animal. A man who lives alone is either a Beast or a God — Aristotle.

Lucky Beauty. Her beast was a man in beast trappings. Far scarier is a beast in the trappings of a man. — Jane Nickerson

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

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

There is no beast more cruel than man. — Leonid Andreyev

was something truly sexy about a man astride a huge beast, controlling it with a squeeze of his tightly wrapped thighs. — Raquel Lyon

I'm not fit company for man or beast. — Billy Strayhorn

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred. — Marek Edelman

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child. — C.S. Lewis

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast. — P.D. James

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain. — Francis Kilvert

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god. — Brent Weeks

So many times a man's thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast, when he is afraid. — Dante Alighieri

Morals are nothing but a civilized society's attempt to tame some beast called man. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety. — Criss Jami

Ain't fit for man nor beast — W.C. Fields

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

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast. — Mahatma Gandhi

He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger. — Dorothy West

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

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

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it. — Richard Wagner

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

Every man has a wild beast within him. — Frederick The Great

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known. — Carson McCullers

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. — Criss Jami

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

He who makes a beast of himself, takes the pain out of being a man — Avenged Sevenfold

People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. — Boris Pasternak

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

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

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. — Herbert Spencer

Money makes the man a beast. — Irving Stone

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

Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man. — Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

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

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

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

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast. — Aristotle.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say. — Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. — Max Muller

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? — Maxim Gorky

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

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning. — Bhartrhari

People always want to live, even during wartime. You'll learn a lot from living through a war...There is no beast worse than man. — Svetlana Alexievich

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows. — Benjamin Tucker