
“Twas Beauty that killed the beast!”
Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)
Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
“Twas Beauty that killed the beast!”
Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)
Quoted by Emma Goldman in her essay, "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays (2nd revised edition, 1911).
Attributed
"Two Lives" (song)
("Two Lives", Official video on YouTube)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn60dbD0CsE
(+ "Two Lives", a lyrics version on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLKlbUZYd_o
Studio albums, Won't Go Quietly (2010)
Source: How To Do It (1871), Ch. IV : How To Write
Context: You may divide literature into two great classes of books. The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who had something to say. They had in life learned something, or seen something, or done something, which they really wanted and needed to tell to other people. They told it. And their writings make, perhaps, a twentieth part of the printed literature of the world. It is the part which contains all that is worth reading. The other nineteen-twentieths make up the other class.
“While there are two ways of contending, one by discussion, the other by force, the former belonging properly to man, the latter to beasts, recourse must be had to the latter if there be no opportunity for employing the former.”
Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim, cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum, confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.
Book I, section 34. Translation by Andrew P. Peabody
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
"On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"
Letters, etc
“We only become beasts—we become worse than beasts—when we torment others.”
Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 11 (p. 197)
A Bishop Speaks to the Men of His Flock https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2016/01/26/a-bishop-speaks-to-the-men-of-his-flock/ (January 26, 2016)
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 123; it should be noted that in this comment she is referring to the intolerant traditions of ancient Rome and ancient Isreal, and not the modern entities, one of which did not yet exist at the time of her writing.