The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
“Note savages, eh? They live in mountain caves and dress like wild men. They walk about in woolen petticoats, which they are… — Marsha Canham Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
“IF YOU COME NEAR THIS BOAT, I WILL CUT OFF HIS HEAD, D'YOU UNDERSTAND, SAVAGES?” — Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage… — Jerome Isaac Friedman Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Julius Caesar Scaliger Copy Share Image
The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life,… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie Copy Share Image
The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade' — David Ansen Copy Share Image
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change. — Nelly Copy Share Image
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.' — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
