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«Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.»
«And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.»
Author: Anne Rice
(Author)
| About:
Aesthetics,
Beauty
| Keywords:
aesthetic, belonged, Garden of, inevitability, savage, The Garden, vampire, vampires, verified, verifies, verifying
«At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Race
| Keywords:
centuries, distant, exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, races, replace, savage, throughout
«Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
assimilation, contain, discovering, ill luck, luck it, savage, the West, tribes
«A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
demon, enchanted, haunted, Holy Places, savage, wailed, wailing, wane, waned, wanes, waning
«Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway»
«Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, privacy, ruled, rule of law, savage, savaged, setting, set free, Society of, The Process, The Rule of Law, tribe
«Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
Augean, cleaner, cleaners, filth, metallic, savage, sordidness, stable, stupendous
«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!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
high quality, planner, planners, savage, self-educated, specialist, specialists, The Specialist, thinker
«All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.»
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