Quotes about Pigs

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

Even saints do not smile sweetly when God throws them into mud puddles. Only pigs do that.

Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish flavor. They describe how a group of Israelites were transformed into rats, how unbelievers are turned into monkeys and pigs, and how Abraham's father was transformed into an animal and hurled into the raging fires of hell.