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Letter "B" » beasts
«The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts»
Author: Heywood C. Broun
(Writer)
| About:
Ability,
Sex
| Keywords:
beasts, characteristic, distinguishes, frivolously, make love
«Unlike children in other countries, the Eskimos played no game of war. They played with imaginary rifles and harpoons, but these were never directed against people but against the formidable beasts that haunted the vast wastes of their land.»
«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.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
| Keywords:
beasts, beasts of burden, beast of burden, constable, constables, dose, doses, handbook, opium, overload, overloaded
«Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?»
«The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Arts and Industries, Arts and Sciences, attainment, beasts, cultivated, exposed, fury, inclemency, legislator, legislators, modeled, ordained, patriots, sciences, societies, The Elements, The Fury, The Lonely
«We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
beasts, bodily, class, concerned, seeking
«The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
beasts, most populous, populous, truest, wild
«Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
beasts, by nature, ignorant, instructed, instructing, instructs, necessity, Wise Men
«The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye»
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