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The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.


Edward Abbey


#dangerous #enough #forth #go #missionaries

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.


Dale Breckenridge Carnegie


#savages #suffering-life #art

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


#back #before #being #civilized #easy

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.


Anne Rice


#civilization #savage-garden #beauty

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


#am #applied #believe #general #general sense

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.


Nelson Mandela


#against #attacks #continue #feel #futile

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.


Ayn Rand


#existence #free #his #laws #man

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.


Erwin Rommel


#air #anyone #chances #command #complete

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






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