Human Savagery Quotes

#1. Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

Jeff Cooper

#3. If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery.

Mitchell Diamond

#4. Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.

Dennis Lehane

#5. In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

George Ayittey

#6. She herself could not have explained the reasons for her silence;

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#7. The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

Ramakrishna

#8. 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

#9. A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human equality, and for civilization instead of savagery.

Mohsin Hamid

#10. 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

#11. the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#12. Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

Dante Alighieri

#13. 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

#14. War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.

Anna Quindlen

#18. Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Jane Addams

#19. Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery - idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and who is always a lover of the beautiful - the beauty that is personal - the only beauty that is human.

Paul Gauguin

#20. There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn't guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

Lance Conrad

#21. I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

Dean Koontz

#22. Books were links that spanned such missing human bonds or even times of savagery and its resulting ages of ignorance.

Terry Goodkind

#23. Do you guys not get it? You can't hurt us anymore. You can't do anything to us. You can't take anything from us. You're nothing now.

Jeff Zentner

#24. Something deep in the human psyche has always seemed to yearn for ever more enhanced levels of savagery.

Robert Dunbar