The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The north-west coast of America is that mixture of beauty and savagery, which I felt was very similar to the Dorset coast. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. — Ariana Franklin 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
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Anonymous 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
“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.” — Toba Beta 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
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
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
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
“What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism—beyond question the most brutal and barbaric… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself,… — L. Ron Hubbard 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
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority.… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. — Steven James 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
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.” — Mango Wodzak 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
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
“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
Savagery is our primal nature and in it we return via the brain's degenerative diseases. — Mariana Fulger 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
“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
“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.” — Bryant McGill 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
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
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