“ If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in th… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evo… Mehmet Murat ildan
“ Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to i… David Weber
“ Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight a… Nikola Tesla
“ Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the blood like fire it is a real madness. It is joy! All the terror is swept away, a man feels he could l… Bernard Cornwell
“ At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ The creatures I have sent to their God are not men. They abdicated the right to the name by committing acts of inhuman savagery so that they cannot even count themselves among God's beasts. For even t… Rebecca Ashe
“ There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. George R.R. Martin
“ Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery. Herman Melville
“ It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped… Joseph Conrad
“ There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it. Lance Conrad
“ The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who see… Claude Levi-Strauss
“ We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superflu… Bertrand De Jouvenel
“ The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of their immediate families. Warlords slaughter civilians indiscrimina… Steven Pinker
“ In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in o… William Kingdon Clifford
“ They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years. Joe Reyes
“ Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace. Mango Wodzak
“ My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty. Bryant McGill
“ The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! Robert E. Howard
“ It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled aga… Kristin Cashore
