#savage

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 very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied. ↗

— George Catlin

#am #applied #believe #general #general sense

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#call #differ #manners #ours #savages

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#almighty #almighty god #among #call #eye

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

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

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#fresh #generation #invasion #new #new generation

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#fact #hinders #individual #logically #means

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