Savages Quotes - Page 9

• The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Men, White Man, Colony

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1900). “Studies Scientific & Social”

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• Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

  Tanith Lee

  Desire, Deeds, Blind

  Tanith Lee (1996). “The Gods are Thirsty”, Overlook Books

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• He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Men, Mammals

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.807, Diversion Books

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• At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Idiot, Miserable

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.9, University of Georgia Press

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• Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

  E. O. Wilson

  Dream, Hands, Names

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• Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies." Without adult supervision, they organize themselves into rival tribes, learn to hunt and kill, and eventually become murderous barbarians in the absence of a civilizing structure.

  Kathleen Parker

  Children, Islands, Adults

  "Lord of the blogs". townhall.com. December 28, 2005.

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• Fred Savage,he's America's sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent... I love him like a brother.

  Rob Lowe

  Brother, I Love Him, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.

  Rob Lowe

  Proud, Lucky, Chemistry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history. It was internal conquest. You had to defend yourself against what the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, an enlightened figure, called the attacks of the "merciless Indian savages," whose known way of warfare was torture and destruction. Also you had a slave population, you had to protect yourself against them. You needed guns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Gun, Independence, Population

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map, Libya was stable, Egypt was peaceful, Iraq was seeing really a big, big reduction in violence, Iran was being choked by sanctions, Syria was somewhat under control. After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region and the entire world. Libya is in ruins and our ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control. Iraq is in chaos. Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Iraq, Egypt

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really savage - is that the Greek crisis didn't have to erupt. It could have been taken care of pretty easily at the very beginning. But it happened and Syriza came into office with a declared commitment to combat it, and in fact as I recall they actually called a referendum, which horrified Europe.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Taken, Commitment

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Children, Heredity And Environment, Compare

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one Life. Anyone who has not fulfilled that life must step down the Truth, and when he does that, he is unconsciously betraying the Truth.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Expression, Doe, Different

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.

  Marine Le Pen

  Wall, Real, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• "Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Honesty, Want, Stories

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in himself. He - he has been brainwashed by the educational system that exists here in America to the point where he feels he was a savage in the jungle when he was - before he was brought here. And this destroys his morale.

  Malcolm X

  Educational, Numbers, America

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• What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism.

  Peter Breggin

  Damage Control, Years, Hypocrisy

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• Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

  Gore Vidal

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually 'all victims of capitalism'. I disagree. This savage global capitalism is only one of the most terrible bi-products of the dominant Western culture of racism, greed, brutality and unbridled desire to control the world.

  Andre Vltchek

  Circles, Views, Racism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Ideas, Immature

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.

  John Dewey

  Civilization, Achievement, Growth

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Foundation, Death Penalty, Moral

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• The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential and relegated to the logic of a savage market instrumentality.

  Henry Giroux

  Promise, Progress, Logic

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate of downward mobility, but also the fact that youth live in a commercially carpet-bombed and commodified environment that is unlike anything experienced by those of previous generations. Nothing has prepared this generation for the inhospitable and savage new world of commodification, privatization, joblessness, frustrated hopes and stillborn projects.

  Henry Giroux

  Fate, People, Frustrated

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold on American society (and in other parts of the world) along with the savage social costs they have enacted, the forms of social, political, and economic violence that young people are protesting against, as well as the violence waged in response to their protests, will become impossible to recognize and act on.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Taken, Artist

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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