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"Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality."
"The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages."
"Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel."
"It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage."
"Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?"
"No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate."
"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."
"The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty."
"When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death."
"Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs."
"All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
"Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]"
"Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers."
"Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature."
"Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization."
"Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?"
"When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages."
"Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism."
"The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages."
"Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are."
