Words words words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.

Save for thee and thy lessons man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

There is no religion without love and people may talk as much as they like about their religion but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

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

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

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

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.

He who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself must be either a beast or a god.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation woman the object of our lust.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own by yourself and you have a TV network you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it I believe it will - this is how things go.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

I fear no man no beast or evil brother.

Fear not we are of the nature of the lion and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel our family members and our laborers our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them admire them and abuse them. And of course we cook and eat them.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.