#savages

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. ↗

— Hervey Allen

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The savages don't have atom bombs. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#bombs #savages

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

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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Zebulon Pike

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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

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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us. ↗

— Samuel de Champlain

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. ↗

— Mark Twain

#savages #humor

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

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

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