Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is nothing edifying or educational enough in these exhibitions to atone for their evil effects upon the poor savages who are… — Claire Prentice Copy Share Image
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes,… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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