“Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.” — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority.… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“The creatures I have sent to their God are not men. They abdicated the right to the name by committing acts of… — Rebecca Ashe Copy Share Image
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
