Savage Quotes
368 quotes by 289 authors
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
— Alain Badiou
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
— Octavia Butler
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made…
— William Ellery Channing
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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
— Horace
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with…
— D. H. Lawrence
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real…
— Charles Darwin
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Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
— Jerome Isaac Friedman
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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of…
— Mark Twain
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Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a…
— William Ralph Inge
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
— Oscar Wilde
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we…
— Alan Moore
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
— Josh Billings
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
— Plutarch
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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts…
— John Barth
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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush…
— H. L. Mencken
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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
— H.G. Wells
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