“(K)ids are savages who haven't learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don't flinch from the truth.” — Brendan McGinley Copy Share Image
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that. — Amandla Stenberg 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
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin.… — Meredith Ostrom Copy Share Image
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it… — Rudyard Kipling 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
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. — George Bernard Shaw 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
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him. And he would never let… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but… — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
