Jackals Quotes

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Religion

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• Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

  Herman Melville

  Doubt, Atheism, Literature

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.7.

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• Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Heels

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.389, Random House

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• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  May, Lions, Easier

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Matter, Meat, Transformation

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

  Tipu Sultan

  Islamic, Years, Lions

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• When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Snakes, Wings

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

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Thinking, Egypt

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Want, United States

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

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Compassion, Littles

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• Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Our Words, World

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• Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Communication, Clear

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• Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lawyer, Commerce

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Persons

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• 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.

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.101, Lulu.com

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

  David Letterman

  Running, New York, Cities

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• 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.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Communication, People

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• One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.

  Tipu Sultan

  Years, Bravery, One Day

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• 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!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Father, Law, Mind

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• 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….

  Charles Kennedy

  Stories, Favourite, Cases

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• He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Istanbul, Drawing, Spy

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Regret, Lying, Dark

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• 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.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Spring, Angel

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.119, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Idries Shah

  Taken, Meat, Lions

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.72, Octagon Press Ltd

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• 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.

  Jaroslav Hašek

  Garden, People, Naked

  Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Svejk”, Everyman's Library

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