Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like… — Jason Dolley Copy Share Image
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun. — P. J. Plauger Copy Share Image
You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie. — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?” — Carol Ryrie Brink Copy Share Image
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the… — Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley Copy Share Image
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Fred Savage,he's America's sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent... I love him like a brother. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
