“Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.” — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. — Steven James Copy Share Image
Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should… — William Kingdon Clifford 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
At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law.… — H. L. Mencken 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
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
“[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.” — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
“My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies! — William Golding Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“As citizens divided long we've practiced savagery. Awake, Arise and get to work, Oh Brave Earthistani!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness — a savagery without stain.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image