Savages Quote by Leonardo da Vinci Download Open image “Savage is he who saves himself.” — Leonardo da Vinci ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Savages
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 Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders,… — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image