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• Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Silly, Men, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

  Julius Caesar Scaliger

  Stupid, Insulting, England

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• Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

  Adam Smith

  Order, Numbers, People

  "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, (Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 2), 1776.

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• Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Tyrants, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Success, Brother, Native American

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• I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

  Cam'ron

  Running, Zoos, Scandal

  Song: Down And Out, Album: Purple Haze, 2004

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• 'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

  David Gemmell

  Handsome, Way, Helping

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 2, 1990.

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• Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

  Aldous Huxley

  Civilization, Agree

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Civilization, Two, Noses

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

  Ayn Rand

  Progress Of Society, Civilization, Political

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

  Clarice Lispector

  Distance, Sadness, Intuition

  Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.17, U of Minnesota Press

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• What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1646, Manonmani Publishers

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• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

  William James

  Men, Differences, Choices

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
  And all of heaven we have below.
  Music can noble hints impart,
  Engender fury, kindle love;
  40 With unsuspected eloquence can move,
  And manage all the man with secret art.
  When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre
  The streams stand still, the stones admire;
  The listening savages advance,
  The world and lamb around him trip
  The bears in aukward measures leap,
  And tigers mingle in the dance
  The moving woods attended as he played
  And Rhodope was left without a shade.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison, “A Song For St. CeCILIa's Day, At Oxford”

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• To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

  John Dewey

  Order, Might, Seems

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  Plato

  Athlete, Too Much, Athletics

  Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.

  KRS-One

  Fighting, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Islands, Justice, Diversity

  Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

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• Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Civilization, Stills

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French revolution. A history”, p.210

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• A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Criminals

  John Locke (2009). “The Second Treatise on Civil Government”, p.13, Prometheus Books

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• Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Belief, Hallmark, Evidence

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• All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Unhappy, Syphilis

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Heart, Race

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Gentle

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• May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times?

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Real, Independent

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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