#savage

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. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#common #dictate #foreign #individual #magical

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#creditor #dreaded #dwelling #financial #savages

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

#civilization #savage-garden #beauty

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#develop #fierce #forest #human #men

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conscience #get #huge #i #me

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#completely #either #men #noble #nuance

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. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#ethics #evolution #goal #harming #highest

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#call #differ #manners #ours #savages

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#air #anyone #chances #command #complete