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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery  (Savagery Quotes) Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity  (Savagery Quotes) It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves  (Savagery Quotes) There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery  (Savagery Quotes) The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery  (Savagery Quotes) Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion  (Savagery Quotes) A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery  (Savagery Quotes) Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it’s way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It’s fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry  (Savagery Quotes) What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less  (Savagery Quotes) I’ve since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise  (Savagery Quotes) 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 against it utterly  (Savagery Quotes) The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings  (Savagery Quotes) Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton  (Savagery Quotes) Savagery is necessary every four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization  (Savagery Quotes) Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward  (Savagery Quotes) The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is ‘the hollyhocks are awfully good’ sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don’t dwell upon.  (Savagery Quotes) 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.  (Savagery Quotes) They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. The world has always been full of vicious predators. For plenty of people this carnage and savagery is business as usual.  (Savagery Quotes) Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn’t change. It really puts the real in football.  (Savagery Quotes) No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.  (Savagery Quotes) The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who ‘graze’ from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.  (Savagery Quotes) If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.  (Savagery Quotes) Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter  (Savagery Quotes) Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers  (Savagery Quotes) Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain  (Savagery Quotes) There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time  (Savagery Quotes) The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery  (Savagery Quotes) Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn’t change. It really puts the real in football  (Savagery Quotes) And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love  (Savagery Quotes) It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is  (Savagery Quotes)
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