For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually 'all victims of capitalism'. I… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
