Frederick The Great
King
"Every man has a wild beast within him."
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Plotinus
Philosopher
"Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"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."
B. B. King
Musician
"Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there."
James Thurber
Cartoonist, Author
"The unicorn is a mythical beast."
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"music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man."
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"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."
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"There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say."
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"...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts."
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"The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars."
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"Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself."
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"What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly."
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"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
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"Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."
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"Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode."
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"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
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"I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)"
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"Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?"
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"One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration."
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"No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men."
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"The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god."
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"I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track."
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"A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel."
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"Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast."
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"A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast."
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