“...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the… — Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley 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
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of… — David Brainerd 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
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky 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