The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Savagery is our primal nature and in it we return via the brain's degenerative diseases. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am, but I’m also referring to certain white men in suits. It only takes a single generation to revert to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — Thomas Sowell 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
“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
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
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so… — David Weber Copy Share Image
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her.… — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those… — James Carroll 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
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what sort of savagery your ‘barbarian’ people instilled, but christening yourself war-like seems the height of narcissistic delusion. Let… — Clayton Kinnelon Greiman Copy Share Image
“It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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