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
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in… — Fannie Barrier Williams 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
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So, I asked ’gain, is it better to be savage’n to be Civ’lized? List’n, savages an’ Civ’lizeds ain’t divvied by tribes or… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for… — Margaret Murray Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“When people failed to be something good in life or to achieve something good. They become savages. Since they cant rise, they… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were… — Kim Harrison 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
[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you… — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how… — David Jason Copy Share Image
... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking… — Nance O'Neil Copy Share Image
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
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