Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have to say for both of us [ with Adam Savage], this experience that we've been having here has changed us… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life,… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie Copy Share Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change. — Nelly Copy Share Image
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie. — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
