Quotes about Savagery

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If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the sava — Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast s — George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years. — Joe Reyes, Aftermath
Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of compet — Adam Burch, Song of Edmon
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and — Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere b — William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The t — Nikola Tesla
At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, an — David Weber, Oath of Swords
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events — Patrick Cockburn
The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourse — Claude Lévi-Strauss, Race et histoire
Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world. — Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great numbe — Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murde — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political sy — William Golding, Lord of the Flies
When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but sav — Mehmet Murat ildan
It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itse — Kristin Cashore, Graceling
The creatures I have sent to their God are not men. They abdicated the right to the name by committing acts of inhuman s — Rebecca Ashe
Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the blood like fire it is — Bernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm
Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace. — Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook