#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


#back #before #being #civilized #easy

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

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 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

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.


Don Cheadle


#completely #either #men #noble #nuance

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.


Thomas A. Edison


#ethics #evolution #goal #harming #highest

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.


Nelson A. Miles


#atrocities #been #compliance #could #followed

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.


Nelson A. Miles


#being #between #character #civilized #distinction

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