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Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman. – Tommy Curry	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When they search for gold in our land, they damage our river, our water. They are pushing away our beasts of prey. – Neila Bolsonaro	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And, then, the old man preached about the daily indignities of the old south— insulting stereotypes and caricatures that portrayed us as buffoons, butlers, and beasts; lies about our morality and worth, some told by preachers who said we had no souls, that we wore the Curse of Ham; backbreaking toil, often forced by law, the fruit of our labor on another man’s plate; poverty that warped, crippled, and everywhere premature death; our voices silenced by poll taxes and literacy tests; schooling in raggedy shacks with tattered books because education would spoil us for work in the fields; cuffed, chained, and caged, for crimes both real and imagined; our soldiers killed in their uniforms, their medals stripped; our businesses, churches, schools, and homes burned to the ground when we progressed too much; our women and children raped; everywhere the barbarism of color discrimination followed us, enveloped us, and when all else failed, there were sadistic cowards with ropes and pyres to kill us, kill our bodies, to try and end us. But, we did not end. – David Pilgrim	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Wisemen are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature. – Marcus Tullus Cicero	added by Normando 5 years ago
These beasts are a burden on the earth, they do not deserve to live. – Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Quite the crazy farm right now, we are housing everything from wee little creatures to ginormous beasts and no trouble. With that many personalities mixing it up, it's been amazing. – Burgandy Singleton	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What this evidence does is for the first time shows us how they might have tackled one of these big beasts and the fact that they were almost certainly doing it routinely is important, getting two sets of fossil footprints that interact, that show you the behavioral ecology, is very, very rare. – Matthew Bennett	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Veselnitskaya is not close to the Kremlin, but in today's Russia, even a second- or third-hand connection to the big beasts of the system can be parlayed into all kinds of extracurricular economic activities. – Mark Galeotti	Found on CNN 6 years ago
To be in a room full of people who genuinely put so much of their time and attention into following what happens in these various worlds - whether it's Marvel or Potter - it's primarily why we make movies, fantastic Beasts. – David Yates	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
What we learn is that we as humans are very much social beasts and we are really learning by engaging with other humans and so the more that a digital technology can approximate that, the more a young child can get out of it. – Ari Brown	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaf-like scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can-opener; Nectocaris, a boggle-eyed two-armed squid, and Opabinia, which looks like a shrimp that swallowed a vacuum cleaner. – Martin Smith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are many big beasts in the cabinet who are utterly opposed to Heathrow and the government may ask itself is Heathrow politically deliverable even if Davies recommends it. – John Stewart	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truthand listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. – Patrick Henry	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. – Jules Renard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. – Max Lerner	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. – Edward Dahlberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object, of his being. – David Hume	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being. – David Hume	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Beasts aren’t sent with wrath because the time is short but, rather, are shaped over time from the wrath that was wrought forth within them. – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended. – Bharavi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. – Thomas Hobbes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. – Ernesto "Che" Guevara	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman.

– Tommy Curry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When they search for gold in our land, they damage our river, our water. They are pushing away our beasts of prey.

– Neila Bolsonaro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And, then, the old man preached about the daily indignities of the old south— insulting stereotypes and caricatures that portrayed us as buffoons, butlers, and beasts; lies about our morality and worth, some told by preachers who said we had no souls, that we wore the Curse of Ham; backbreaking toil, often forced by law, the fruit of our labor on another man’s plate; poverty that warped, crippled, and everywhere premature death; our voices silenced by poll taxes and literacy tests; schooling in raggedy shacks with tattered books because education would spoil us for work in the fields; cuffed, chained, and caged, for crimes both real and imagined; our soldiers killed in their uniforms, their medals stripped; our businesses, churches, schools, and homes burned to the ground when we progressed too much; our women and children raped; everywhere the barbarism of color discrimination followed us, enveloped us, and when all else failed, there were sadistic cowards with ropes and pyres to kill us, kill our bodies, to try and end us. But, we did not end.

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Wisemen are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

– Marcus Tullus Cicero

added by Normando
5 years ago

These beasts are a burden on the earth, they do not deserve to live.

– Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Quite the crazy farm right now, we are housing everything from wee little creatures to ginormous beasts and no trouble. With that many personalities mixing it up, it's been amazing.

– Burgandy Singleton

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What this evidence does is for the first time shows us how they might have tackled one of these big beasts and the fact that they were almost certainly doing it routinely is important, getting two sets of fossil footprints that interact, that show you the behavioral ecology, is very, very rare.

– Matthew Bennett

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Veselnitskaya is not close to the Kremlin, but in today's Russia, even a second- or third-hand connection to the big beasts of the system can be parlayed into all kinds of extracurricular economic activities.

– Mark Galeotti

Found on CNN
6 years ago

To be in a room full of people who genuinely put so much of their time and attention into following what happens in these various worlds - whether it's Marvel or Potter - it's primarily why we make movies, fantastic Beasts.

– David Yates

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

What we learn is that we as humans are very much social beasts and we are really learning by engaging with other humans and so the more that a digital technology can approximate that, the more a young child can get out of it.

– Ari Brown

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaf-like scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can-opener; Nectocaris, a boggle-eyed two-armed squid, and Opabinia, which looks like a shrimp that swallowed a vacuum cleaner.

– Martin Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are many big beasts in the cabinet who are utterly opposed to Heathrow and the government may ask itself is Heathrow politically deliverable even if Davies recommends it.

– John Stewart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truthand listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

– Patrick Henry