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Letter "S" » savaged
«The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Controversy
| Keywords:
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«I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.»
Author: Alice Walker
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
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«Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman»
«Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
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«Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway»
«Ants and savages put strangers to death»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ants, putting to death, savaged, savages, Strangers, The Ants
«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
«The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
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«We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.»
«There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages»
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