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“I'm not fit company for man or beast.”

Men Company Fit Beast

Author:Billy Strayhorn

“There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.”

Men Talking Beast Wild Beasts

Author:Jonathan Swift

“God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.”

Thinking Men Way Animal Creatures Dare Beast Suspects

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

“Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.”

Men Doe Animal Divine Exercise Creatures Authority Abuse Beast Dominion Divine Right Sacrilegious

Author:C. S. Lewis

“A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.”

Men Fear Thousand Beast

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.”

Men May Body Form Order Stars Water Glory Environmental Woods Beast Translate Multiple Finite

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one thing you do not think about: the whole. Beasts have a mind; respect it. Flowers too- look at one. Nature brought forth each petal. There is a mystery that sleeps in metal. Everything feels, and has power over you.”

Thinking Men Feels Mind Looks Soul Whole Sleep One Thing Mystery Flower Environmental Beast Over You Metals Petals Quiver

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!”

Men Animal Forever Air Sea Calling Mountain Gun Brave Teeth Dumb Beast Territory Animal Rights Savages Greedy Vicious Jungle Ruthless Brave Man Snares

Author:Adela Popescu

“If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.”

Ifs Men Different Faces Beast One Man Portraiture

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".”

Men Doe Desire Effects Increase Punishment Beast Broads Mastery Cunning Sharpening

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.”

Men Beast Descending

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works