The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their… — Horace Copy Share Image
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your… — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I have to say for both of us [ with Adam Savage], this experience that we've been having here has changed us… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely… — Walter Farley Copy Share Image
“I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages.… — Alma Hogan Snell Copy Share Image
I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map, Libya was stable, Egypt was peaceful, Iraq was seeing really a big,… — Donald Trump 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
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life. — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
“Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“«They are a bunch of fucking savages». Donna Winters, asistente del embajador de Estados Unidos.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same. — George Galloway Copy Share Image