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Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. — G. Stanley Hall
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. — William Winwood Reade
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the… — George Catlin
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. — Bernd Heinrich
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of… — Johan Huizinga
It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing… — Ranulph Fiennes
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . .… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. — Belva Ann Lockwood
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to… — Pope Pius XII
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have… — Samuel Johnson
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. — William Butler Yeats
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space… — Jesmyn Ward
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee… — William Shakespeare
There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains… — Charles Dickens
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model,… — Evo Morales
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his… — Anatole France
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to… — Georges Bernanos
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant… — Richard Hakluyt

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