#beasts

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#beasts #country #daily #dangerous #death

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? ↗

— Confucius

#beasts #distinguish #feelings #respect #without

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. ↗

— Willard Gaylin

#beings #fishermen #human #human beings #humanity

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard. ↗

— Ted Knight

#black #constantly #guard #out #you

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. ↗

— Voltaire

#architecture #beasts #built #fight #greatest

...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory. ↗

— Yann Martel

#lions #nature #wild-animals #life

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#beasts #mankind #perfection #mankind

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. ↗

— Edmund Leach

#cook #food #men #reasons #show

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#beasts #demons #heroic #i #like

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. ↗

— Max Lerner

#beasts #brothers #die #either #learn