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“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.”

Dream Eye Faces Form Black Dark Animal Brain Fire Wall Mouths Enormous Mortals Broke Flames Savages Coal Fog Hounds Broke Up Glare Delirious Muzzle

Book:The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.”

“Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.”

Ifs Humans Doe Born Violence Crime Truth Is Cost Lucky Human Life Torture Savages Senseless Violence

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.”

Long States Light Night Water Religious Animal Dog Moon Worship Appeals Savages Floats Howl

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

“Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.”

Equal Capable Insanity Anticipation Savages Thrust Frenzy

Author:Georges Bernanos

“No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.”

Reason History Greater Glory Draws Ignorant Conquer Divinity Reverence Recalls Savages Civility Pagan Barbarians Orbit

Book:The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts

Source: The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts

“What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant”

War Facts Fighting Numbers History Unique Civil War Ireland Savages Englishmen Protestants Large Numbers Cromwell

Author:Ronald Hutton

“The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.”

Humans Social Growth Religious Views Race Quality Stage Development Wide Human Race Civilized Trends Savages Archaeology

Author:Margaret Murray

“We must kill the savage to save the man.”

Men He Man Savages

Author:Richard Henry Pratt

“We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.”

Art Would Be Found Lost Slavery Burning Savages Starving Invasion Barbarians Superfluous Lost Art

Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

“The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.”

Thinking Men Stills Whole Seems Law Church Animal Talking Grace Violence Eating And Love Noble Violent Meat Our Society Savages Meat Eating Grace And Love

Author:Sam Peckinpah

“Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with lots of feathers. That image has stayed in some people's minds. Many think we're either visionaries, `noble savages,' squaw drudges or tragic alcoholics. We're very rarely depicted as real people who have greater tenacity in terms of trying to hang on to our culture and values system than most people.”

“Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.”

Lying Numbers Doubt Trouble India Code Savages When In Doubt

Book:Rock Chick

Source: Rock Chick

“Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.”

Doe Hands Revolution Wounds Britain Breasts Wilderness Savages Arrows Grim American Revolution

Author:Joseph Warren

“I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!”

People Thinking Men Want Mean Shows Girl Black White Race Air He Man Planets Warrior Savages Scratches Mean Girls White Girl Black Race

Author:Denise Crosby

“It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.”

Should Believe Seems America Jazz Dance Rhythm Fierce Primitive Savages Monstrous

Book:My life

Source: My life

“Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.”

Thinking Way Sweet Yeah Savages

Author:Bruce McCulloch

“What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.”

Men Doe Marriage Savages Renounce Renunciation What Is Marriage

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.”

“Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.”

Men Mean Government Social Virtue Worship Civilized Savages Restraint Piety

Book:Letters: 1761-1792

Source: Letters: 1761-1792

“Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.”

Men Way Dream Imagination Ocean Rivers Environmental Lovely Feds Cracks Elsewhere Savages Highways Static Primal Ponds Charmed Arteries

Book:Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

“The savages don't have atom bombs.”

Literature Bombs Atoms Savages Atom Bomb

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.”

Should Murder Committed Guilty Fierce Savages Mars Favour Adultery Venus Homicide Athenians

Book:The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)

“So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.”

Dark Trouble Fierce Pigs Savages Thirst Mud Dark Places Buffalo

Book:Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

Source: Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

“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.”

Has Beens Spirit White Race Obligation Fierce Savages Treaties Atrocities Compliance Intrusion White Race Revengeful

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.”

Thinking Mean Facts Individual Prove Tradition Fierce Savages Hinder

Book:From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time

Source: From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time

“A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.”

Men Order Aspect Ugly Flesh Relief Fierce Savages Creeps Satirist

Book:Occasions and protests

Source: Occasions and protests

“The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.”

Humans War States Facts Wish Process Natural Results Human Nature Reactions Characteristics Fierce Savages Departure

Book:Addresses on International Subjects

Source: Addresses on International Subjects

“In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”

May States Religion Individual Common Terror Superstitions Fierce Savages Tribes Rite

Book:Religion of the Semites (Ppr)

Source: Religion of the Semites (Ppr)

“Even savage animals can agree among themselves.”

Animal Agree Agreement Savages

Author:Juvenal

“Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.”

Kind Race Learning Ignorance Nonsense Civilized Affected Savages Distinguished

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.”

Said Reason Spirit Nations Difficult Animal Steps Blood Sea Appreciate India Worthy Reason Why Sentiments Animal Rights Ancestor Savages Brutes Wholesale

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.”

Too Much Mere Athlete Savages Athletics

Book:Dialogues of Plato

Source: Dialogues of Plato

“I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. That’s not being a warmonger. It’s being a realist.”

Want School Young Girl Gun Crush Savages Acid Realist Warmongers

Author:Allen West

“Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”

Ifs Men Animal Divine Creatures Ill Educated Fortunate Civilized Instruction Savages

Author:Plato

“The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.”

Men Differences Civilization Average Civilized Savages Gilded

Author:Mark Twain

“When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.”

Men May Children Ideas Reality Faces Voice Opinion Atheism Civilization Congress Positive Atheism Cease Opponents Civilized Savages Face To Face

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.”

Wells Girl Rocks Savages

Author:Connie Francis

“If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.”

Ifs Men States Dies Fighting Endure Resistance Rebellion Savages Tribes

Book:Trial of Sir Roger Casement

Source: Trial of Sir Roger Casement

“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.”

“Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”

Fall Energy Loses Vision Civilization Stable Savages Cleaners Decadence Filth Metallic

Book:The Art of Perversity

Source: The Art of Perversity

“On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.”

Men Humans Spirit Perfect Cities Produce Return Landscape Savages Human Spirit Palaces Civilisation Civilised

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.”

Way Believe Art Important Ideas Stories Home Form I Believe Theatre Screens Innocent Hopeful Joyful Savages Great American Pastime Shared Experiences Movie Theatre

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Get down, get naked, get savage.”

Author:Ron Carlson

“Ants and savages put strangers to death.”

Stranger Savages Ants

Book:Unpopular Essays

Source: Unpopular Essays

“If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.”

Ifs Action Week Special Effects Critics Wave Following Savages Action Movie Special Effects Outdated

Author:Adam McKay

“The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.”

Government Taken Land Citizens Possession Granted Wilderness Savages Taking Things For Granted

Author:William H. Wharton

“Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.”

War Earth Walks Animal Savages Mares

Author:Janet Morris

“The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood”

Men Blood Stones Woods Flesh Civilized Idols Bows Savages Flesh And Blood

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.”

Humans Law Purpose Opportunity Nations Race Cases Losing Defeat Human Race Civilized Savages Laws Of Nature Grotesque Precedence

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain