“The Whites always mean well when they take human fish out of the ocean and try to make them dry and warm… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
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
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
Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of… — Ludwig von Mises 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
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far… — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the… — Jack London 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
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
Hey, Tink," Reed called to his wife. He'd given up on the poker game and was cradling the little pink handle that… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“What strikes me,” Sarah continued, “is that men are such savages—they don’t fold their clothes, they pee on the toilet seat, they… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image