#beasts

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#cannot #descend #destruction #fear #lion

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#beasts #because #cannot #capitalists #criminals

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

— Norman Mailer

#culture #huge #risks #totalitarian #without

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

— Ovid

#beasts #becomes #belongs #fair #ferocious

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#beasts #does #every #give #his

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#mythical-beasts #stardust #experience

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. ↗

— Michael Ende

#caves #forest #howling #nests #safe

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#beasts #better #killed #men #run

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#appetites #beasts #brutes #destruction #find

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

#bible #burden #dose #handbook #keeping