So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy 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
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems -… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called… — Herman Melville 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
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
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression… — Denholm Elliott Copy Share Image
Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't… — Lawrence Taylor Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.” — Toba Beta 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
Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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