#savage

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#fact #hinders #individual #logically #means

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

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. ↗

— John H. Speke

#buffalo #dark #dark places #delighting #especially

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

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

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. ↗

— Granville Stanley Hall

#individual #past #race #savage #stage