Angel Quote by John Barth

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

— Don Winslow

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

— Victor Hugo

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

— Thomas Carlyle

I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world…

— William Golding

The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how…

— Cassandra Clare

“Let us conclude that savage man, wandering about in the forests, without industry, without speech, without any fixed residence, an equal stranger to war…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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…

— Plato

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable…

— Pope John Paul II