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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an… — Chief Seattle
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. — Euripides
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good… — John Stuart Mill
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old… — Lewis Mumford
My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted… — Cheryl Strayed
Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do… — Karl Marx
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while… — Elihu Root
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. — Don Cheadle
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change. — Nelly
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way… — Jim Jarmusch
Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was… — Chris Kyle
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the… — Mark Twain
Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick… — Mark Twain
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns — Jonathan Swift
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. — Camille Paglia
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they… — Samuel de Champlain
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to… — Adela Popescu
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do… — Horace
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in… — Pearl S. Buck
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals… — Eric Hoffer
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain

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