#savage

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#consciously #determination #drunk #getting #i

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#colours #confirmed #discovered #i #likes

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#cancer #clean #cut #german #germany

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter. ↗

— Patrick Cockburn

#conventional-thinking #euphemism #language #laziness #savagery

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

— Edward Abbey

#dangerous #enough #forth #go #missionaries

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

— George R.R. Martin

#human-nature #savagery #war #nature

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#creditor #dreaded #dwelling #financial #savages

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