Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for… — Jack London 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
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
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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