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• The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Swings, People, Doe

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Civilization, Fragility, Constant

  Camille Paglia (2017). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.261, Vintage

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• War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, Real, War

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• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, Enemy, Becoming

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• Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

  E. W. Howe

  Respect, Hurt, Men

  "The last word on Respect" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2000.

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• As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.57, 谷月社

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• Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

  Charles Warren Stoddard

  Order, Perfect, Grace

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• A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Men, Fruit

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• Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Home, Land

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Revenge, Passion, Men

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• Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Inspiration, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice: The Applause Shakespeare Library”, p.152, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

  Mao Zedong

  Warrior, Mind, Body

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• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

  Edmund Burke

  Death, Men, America

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.250

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• I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Hurt, Thinking

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Children, Thinking, Luck

  Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner (2003). “Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple”, p.102, Nan A. Talese

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• You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

  Ann Coulter

  Civilization

  "Media Hit Job Of The Year: The Punishment of Helen Thomas headshot" by Danny Schechter, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.

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• We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

  Thabo Mbeki

  Future, Survival, Vision

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• The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Real, Character, Appreciate

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press

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• The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;—war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Age, Violence

  Alexander Hamilton (1904). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton”

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• Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

  Robert Lowell

  Car, Grease, Giants

  "For the Union Dead" l. 65 (1964)

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• Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Revenge, Selfish, Distance

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Tears, Sadism

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• The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Art, Perfect

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• I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Children, Mean

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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