Human Nature And Savagery Quotes

#1. There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

George R R Martin

#2. I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

Jim Courier

#3. The time is 'now' to do something - don't drag your feet.

Les Brown

#4. Just because we are capable of art didn't what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest as monstrous. The same hands committed both. Brains don't undermine the savagery. They made us better at it.

Michael Marshall

#5. It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.

Ravi Zacharias

#6. In the midst of nature's savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.

Andy Miller

#7. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it.
And now I will have to be that person forever.

Robert Goolrick

#9. Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

Edward Young

#10. I'm not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person.

Mary Frann

#11. Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

Horace

#12. Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

Dean Koontz

#13. Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

Willa Cather

#14. Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

Rick Perlstein

#15. In expression of Fatherhood I evolve to become - all I was destined, to be.

Eleesha

#16. The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.

Tony Robbins

#17. You mean that it's not only what he does that makes him dangerous, but also what he feels justified in doing?

Terry Goodkind

#18. You should never wear anything you can't afford to lose.

Sloane Crosley

#19. When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.

Earl Woods