The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
A revolting, fat, beast.
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it.
Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.
We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.
There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.
Man is neither angel nor beast.
All Kings are to be reckon'd amongst ravenous Beasts
Marcus Porcius Cato
Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]
We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.
The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.
A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
