Beast

Famous quotes containing the word beast:

“Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others’ children.”
—Sam Levenson (20th century)