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Tag Name "Savagery" (41)

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The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.
Thorstein Veblen
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"So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the ""massacre of innocent people"" or, if you like, ""a clash of civilisations"" and ""collateral damage"". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice."
Arundhati Roy
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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
Willa Cather
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After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
Cullen Hightower
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Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
William Shakespeare
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There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
Don Winslow
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
George Bernard Shaw
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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.
George Bernard Shaw
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He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.
J.R. Ward
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Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
Jean Dubuffet
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Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.
Jim Butcher
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The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The unsparing savagery of stories like The Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.
Maria Tatar
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Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.
Markus Zusak
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
Octavia Butler
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The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery.
Robert M. Sapolsky
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"As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, ""with hatred and savagery"" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit."
A. C. Cuza
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An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005
Simon Barnes
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt
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No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
Anne Rice
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It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
Will Self
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The Novelist As Teacher: I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past with all its imperfections was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on Gods behalf delivered them.
Chinua Achebe
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them for then it must sink back into savagery.
William Kingdon Clifford
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