Fierce Quote by Victor Hugo

“The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but…

— Victor Hugo

“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

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

— Edward Gibbon

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

“The poacher works in the woods, and the smuggler in the mountains or on the sea. The towns make men ferocious because it makes…

— Victor Hugo

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

— Benjamin Rush

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time…

— Gloria Reuben

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…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war,…

— Anonymous