#savages

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

— Edward Abbey

#dangerous #enough #forth #go #missionaries

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#savages #suffering-life #art

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

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#fresh #generation #invasion #new #new generation

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

#ethics #evolution #goal #harming #highest

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#call #differ #manners #ours #savages

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

— Zebulon Pike

#compared #ensemble #make #polished #savages

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