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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage. — Plato
I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush… — Allen West
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… — Plato
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. — Mark Twain
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and… — Walter Lippmann
A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage. — Connie Francis
If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that… — Roger Casement
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than… — D. H. Lawrence
On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important… — Christopher Nolan
Get down, get naked, get savage. — Ron Carlson
Ants and savages put strangers to death. — Bertrand Russell
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special… — Adam McKay
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which… — William H. Wharton
Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged. — Janet Morris
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.… — Mark Twain
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because… — Frederic Chopin
Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the… — Anna Kavan
Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that… — Gore Vidal
A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really… — James A. Murphy III
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Plato
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa.… — Mahatma Gandhi

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