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Letter "S" » savages
«The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Christianize, Christianized, go forth, missionaries, savages
«The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Christianity,
Civilization,
Women
| Keywords:
dark ages, estimate, goddess, Great Goddess, increasing, savages, sentimental, toy
«What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| Keywords:
covered, devise, embellish, embellished, embellishes, embellishing, execute, extensive, farms, forests, improvements, prosperous, ranged, republic, savages, stud, studded, studs, towns
«I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.»
«Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.»
«Ants and savages put strangers to death»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ants, putting to death, savaged, savages, Strangers, The Ants
«If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
appointed, cultivation, extirpate, improbable, providence, rum, savages
«Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
ancestors, brutal, gentleman, honorable, island, Jew, priests, savages, Solomon, temple, Temple of, The temple
«Dear Lord, thank You for this microwave bounty, even though we don't deserve it. I mean... our kids are uncontrollable hellions! Pardon my French... but they act like savages! Did You see them at the picnic? Oh, of course You did... You're everywhere, You're omnivorous. Oh Lord! Why did You spite me with this family?»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
bounties, bounty, French, microwave, omnivorous, pardon, picnic, picnicking, picnics, savages, thank you, The Bounty, uncontrollable
«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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