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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive,… — Emile M. Cioran
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process… — Charles Darwin
I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to… — C.S. Lewis
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to… — Denis Diderot
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. — Elbert Hubbard
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of… — Henry David Thoreau
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral… — Charles Kingsley
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the… — Edith Hamilton
Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage — Mike Tyson
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a… — Guy de Maupassant
The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The… — Sigmund Freud
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him. — E. W. Howe
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes. — Finley Peter Dunne
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. — George Bernard Shaw
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… — Mark Twain
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. — Eric Hoffer
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… — Mark Twain
Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. — Publilius Syrus
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. — Samuel Johnson

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