That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural… — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my… — Lisa Kleypas 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
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely… — Walter Farley Copy Share Image
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Julius Caesar Scaliger 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
Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same. — George Galloway Copy Share Image
I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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