Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?” — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness — a savagery without stain.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism—beyond question the most brutal and barbaric… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“No matter how much the inhabitants might try to hide it, there was a savagery about this island, a bloodlust and pride… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I wondered if God was up there, watching and disapproving of the savagery being carried out in the name of entertainment. If… — Michael Logan Copy Share Image
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't… — Lawrence Taylor Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression… — Denholm Elliott Copy Share Image
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
