The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the… — Dean Koontz 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
The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation… — Terry Goodkind 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
Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane,… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same. — George Galloway Copy Share Image
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
