#savage

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

#civilised #even #great #importance #matter

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

— Bertrand Russell

#controversies #either #evidence #good #matters

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#civilized #general #having #know #men

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

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

— Zebulon Pike

#compared #ensemble #make #polished #savages

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

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#core #football #out #picture #puts

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#hunting #pleasure #problem #problem solving #savage

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