“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.”

“You are a spirit, then,
you Man, and not a Man
at all.
You are a spirit and you dwell
within the guts of mortal beast.”

L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology

“A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

“If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

“But it would be enough that, when riding beasts, they behave like men and not like beasts.”

Bem Cavalgar (1391–1438) King of Portugal

“Without madness what is man
more than the healthy beast,
corpse adjourned that procreates?”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”

Sabrina Jeffries (1960) American writer

“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author

“If it was happening, I'd call it Heavenly Beast. If it wasn't happening, I usually call it Arsehole.”

Angus Young (1955) Scottish Australian guitarist

“Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist