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  • Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!

  • In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

    Mother   Children   Hate  
    Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.101, Lulu.com
  • I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

    Book   Writing   School  
    "James Patterson interview with longtime editor Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. March 15, 2013.
  • The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

    Men   Numbers   Humanity  
    Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.295, Ivan R. Dee
  • Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

  • I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

    Media   Culture   Jackals  
    "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.
  • All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

    Thinking   Sheep   Two  
    Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House
  • ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

    Fighting   Men   Bulls  
    "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck".
  • When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

    Taken   Meat   Lions  
    Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.72, Octagon Press Ltd
  • I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

    Father   Law   Mind  
  • Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

    Baby   Block   Book  
  • Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.

  • That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.

    Children   Spring   Angel  
    Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.119, Macmillan
  • Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

  • Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS?

  • We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

    Regret   Lying   Dark  
    "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.
  • Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

  • If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing.

  • Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

    Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”
  • He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

    Fear   Hero   Men  
  • Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

    Son   Men   Snakes  
  • Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.

    Ocean   Men   Two  
    "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.
  • As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.

  • It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

    May   Lions   Easier  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin
  • My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

  • I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

    Cute   Thinking   Egypt  
    Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.142, Penguin UK
  • When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.

    Garden   People   Naked  
    Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Svejk”, Everyman's Library
  • When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.

  • I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

    Horse   Kings   Children  
    "The Horse and His Boy". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1954.
  • Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.

    "Distorted Morality: America’s War on Terror?". Talk at Harvard University, chomsky.info. February 2002.
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