What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius 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
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe. — Plato Copy Share Image
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your… — Joseph Brant Copy Share Image
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. The… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
