Savages Quotes - Page 5

• Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Fear, Lying, Men

  Love and Mr Lewisham (1900) ch. 23

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• All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

  H. L. Mencken

  Order, Religion, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.89, Vintage

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• "I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Inspirational, Kindness, Believe

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• La timidez del niño o del salvaje es totalmente razonable; están alarmados por este mundo, porque este mundo es un lugar muy alarmante. Les disgusta estar solos porque, en verdad y de hecho, es una idea horrible estar solo. Los bárbaros temen lo desconocido por la misma razón que los agnósticos lo adoran: porque es un hecho.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Fear, Ideas

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• Las montañas, el bosque y el mar vuelven salvajes a los hombres; desarrollan lo feroz, pero no destruyen lo humano.

  Victor Hugo

  Naturaleza, Hombres, Mar

  Victor Hugo (1994). "Los Miserables Volumen Uno", p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• ¿Baila, Sr. Darcy?" Darcy: "¡No si puedo evitarlo!" Sir William: "¡Qué encantadora diversión para los jóvenes es ésta, Sr. Darcy! Después de todo, no hay nada como bailar. Lo considero uno de los primeros refinamientos de las sociedades refinadas." Mr. Darcy: "Ciertamente, señor; y tiene además la ventaja de estar en boga entre las sociedades menos refinadas del mundo; todo salvaje sabe bailar.

  Jane Austen

  People, Dancing, World

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• To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mother, Men, Abortion

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  Barón de Holbach

  Selfish, War, Blood

  "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

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• Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?

  Emily Bronte

  Girl, Doors, Laughing

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.456, Penguin

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• The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Laziness

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.113, David M Gross

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• No espero que los cristianos vean a Dios como una metáfora, pero eso es lo que es. Tal vez sería más claro llamarlo un personaje de ficción, y uno muy interesante también: uno de los villanos más grandes y complejos de todos - salvaje, mezquino, fanfarrón y celoso, y sin embargo capaz de momentos de ternura y extremos de afecto arbitrario - por David, por ejemplo. Pero no es real, como tampoco lo son Hamlet o el Sr. Pickwick. Son reales en el contexto de sus historias, pero no los encontrarás en la guía telefónica.

  Philip Pullman

  Cristiano, Real, Libro

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• The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Experience, Wiser

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  Ian Mcewan

  Running, Two, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

  David Mitchell

  Cutting, Parent, Peers

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• And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Book, Garden, Space

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• What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Believe, Thinking, Europe

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• The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Prayer, Answers, Dangerous

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, p. 94, 2000.

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• Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Brother, Children, Teaching

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• Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

  Joseph Conrad

  Mean, Thinking, Air

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Garden, Civilization, Safe

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• A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

  Alan Davies

  Baby, Dear

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• During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Lying, Class, Names

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• I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.

  Paul O'Grady

  Attitude, Years, Roots

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• Ojalá pudiera recordar con claridad el impulso que me obligó a contribuir a la creación de este campamento. Me complacería poder anunciar un motivo de elevado propósito. Se me ha acusado de compasión, de altruismo, de devoción a la ética cristiana, hebrea y musulmana, pero por muy desesperado que esté por reclamar la propiedad de un ideal elevado, no puedo. Quería, creo, reconocer la Suerte; la casualidad de ella, la benevolencia de ella en mi vida, y la brutalidad de ella en las vidas de otros, hecha especialmente salvaje para los niños porque puede que no se les permita la buena fortuna de una vida para corregirla.

  Paul Newman

  Cristiano, Niños, Pensamiento

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• After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Letters, Telephones

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3304, Delphi Classics

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