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“Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.”

Men Kind Beast Prey Formidable

Book:Essays in Religion and Morality

Source: Essays in Religion and Morality

“At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?”

World Two Four Worst Beast Aggression Unjust Prey

Book:Historical Essays

Source: Historical Essays

“How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.”

Happens Fall Flower Bird Weight Brilliant Delicate Insects Prey Birds Of Prey Delicate Things

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.”

World Littles Whole Nature Woods Harm Heal Preacher Torn Prey Sparrows Plunder Mayflies

Book:Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

“Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.”

Men Easy Blind Greed Foolish Prey

Author:Rumi

“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.”

“It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.”

Whole Obsession Warmth Veins Prey Venus

Author:Jean Racine

“Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.”

“As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.”

Sin Sadness Bird Picks Bread Wicked Gates Prey Eden Crumbs Birds Of Prey Bread Crumbs

Author:Bob Dylan

“Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.”