Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“(K)ids are savages who haven't learned to lie to themselves yet.” — Brendan McGinley Copy Share Image
There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes.… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I started doing drag in Seattle because I started doing my column before I moved here, and then moved here and wanted… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of… — George Inness Copy Share Image
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
