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Savage Quotes by Plato
- In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still…
- The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
- Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the…
- He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to…
- And not only did men pass into animals, but I must also mention that there were animals tame and wild who changed into one another…
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