#savage

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#civilized #general #having #know #men

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#contrary #destructive #good #humanity #liberal

Greg Broadmore's fertile and twisted imagination has conjoined multiple genres, memories, and a sharp sense of pulp, colonialist nostalgia/parody in this lavish, fully realized, imaginative tour-de-force. It's Jules Verne meets Fritz Lang meets Tintin. It's beyond Steampunk. It's clearly an insatiable passion for the talismans of a bygone civilization and it's slavish addiction to the early industrial age in all it's filigreed, ignorant glory. Greg has raised the bar. ↗

— Adam Savage

#dr-grordbort #dr-grordbort-s #myth-busters #triumph #weta

Well come and stand a little bit closer, breathe in and get a bit higher. You'll ever know what hit you when I get to you! ↗

— Savage Garden

#music #savage-garden #music

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

— Charles Darwin

#centuries #certainly #civilized #distant #exterminate

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ↗

— William Congreve

#bend #charms #oak #rocks #savage

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. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#call #chicago #city #desire #i

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. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#could #ever #government #granted #had

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. ↗

— Lactantius

#appear #athenians #charge #committed #favour

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. ↗

— Margaret Murray

#call #civilized #development #growth #human