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Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.
Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.
When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.
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.
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.