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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
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
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H.G. Wells
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.… — Charles Dickens
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience… — Pol Pot
Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing… — Georgie Henley
There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either… — Bronislaw Malinowski
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. — Charles Warren Stoddard
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible… — Henry Home, Lord Kames
Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be… — Confucius
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music. — William Shakespeare
Civilize the mind but make savage the body. — Mao Zedong
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that… — Andrei Sakharov
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of… — Ramsey Clark
The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing… — Dennis Holme Robertson
There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast.… — Josemaria Escriva
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything… — Virginia Woolf
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall,… — Edmund Burke
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. — Helen Rowland
I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other.… — Muhammad Ali

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