#beast

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. ↗

— Martin Luther

#burden #choose #contend #god #goes

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

#being #does #gets #know #knows

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

— Norman Mailer

#culture #huge #risks #totalitarian #without

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast. ↗

— Tim Meadows

#beast #become #education #everything #feeds

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.' ↗

— Johann Most

#compels #day #every #every day #himself

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#any #beast #boils #corruption #dante

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

— Ouida

#heart #him #hope #make #man

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. ↗

— Ovid

#beasts #becomes #belongs #fair #ferocious

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#beast #difference #down #feel #football

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

— Boris Pasternak

#beast #centuries #cudgel #irresistible #man