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
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing… — William Ralph Inge 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
How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the… — Mark Steyn 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
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural… — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
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
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I… — Roger Casement Copy Share Image
The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have… — Indira Gandhi 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
What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I take it you know my companion?" Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without… — John Hanning Speke Copy Share Image
What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave'… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
