37 Quotes About Savagery

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

When People Ask You,Who You Are?Don't Tell Them,Show Them.

What is animal, what is human, can't be determined by appearance, it’s only determined by action.

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.

Murderous, mutual loathing between tribes was no more explicable, or complicated, then the genocidal urges of chimpanzees—a fact of nature that we humans, vainly and disingenuously, pretend our codes of civilization transcend.

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

إن وجود كائنات تعتاش على افتراس أخرى في ذاته يثبت وحشية هذا العالم، وإن فكرت بعقلية بايولوجية لتفسير ذلك على أنه محاولة لحفظ التوازن الأحيائي والبيئي، إلا أن الوسيلة في ذاتها مرعبة.

Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.