The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business..

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, ci….

Savage is he who saves himself..

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the childr….

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same..

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind..

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state..

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies..

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system..

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant s….

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell..

Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost ….

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it..

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..

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of ….

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail..

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savag….

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..

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and extermina….

I have to say for both of us [ with Adam Savage], this experience that we've been having here has changed us dramatically, and we've evolved since we….