#savage

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It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.


Helena Bonham Carter


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When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.


Angus Young


#back #being #cave #come #down

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


Victor Hugo


#develop #fierce #forest #human #men

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.


George Catlin


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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.


Zebulon Pike


#compared #ensemble #make #polished #savages

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 war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.


Elihu Root


#civilized #consists #fact #forces #lies

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.


William James


#bad #bad one #between #cause #choice

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 for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.


Jim Jarmusch


#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.


Bertrand Russell


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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.


Bertrand Russell


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