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Savage Quotes by Mark Twain
- 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…
- The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.…
- It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the…
- As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is…
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick…
- Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much…
More Savage Quotes
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou
- I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. — Octavia Butler
- 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
- Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror. — Horace
- But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his… — D. H. Lawrence
- May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin
- 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
- The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain
- Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing… — William Ralph Inge
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage… — Alan Moore