“My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.” — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. — Steven James Copy Share Image
Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems -… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so… — David Weber Copy Share Image
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her.… — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Savagery is our primal nature and in it we return via the brain's degenerative diseases. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am, but I’m also referring to certain white men in suits. It only takes a single generation to revert to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
The north-west coast of America is that mixture of beauty and savagery, which I felt was very similar to the Dorset coast. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
“Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.” — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image