{"quotes":[{"text":"The creatures I have sent to their God are not men. They abdicated the right to the name by committing acts of inhuman savagery so that they cannot even count themselves among God's beasts. For even the beasts have better reason for what they do- and so have I. If those be men, I rank myself gladly with the animals. There are places in this world where the force of law holds sway; it is a great pity that Larissa is not one of them.","author":"Rebecca Ashe","tags":["animals","beasts-and-men","judgement","life","masque-of-the-swan","savagery"],"id":25653,"author_id":"Rebecca+Ashe"},{"text":"Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["brutality","compassion","grace","mercy","savagery","strength","tenderness","true-strength","violence","weakness"],"id":44212,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.","author":"Adam Burch","tags":["human-civilization","humanity","savagery"],"id":48611,"author_id":"Adam+Burch"},{"text":"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["civilization","moderism","nothingness","savagery"],"id":95497,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"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.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["beast","human-nature","savagery","war"],"id":97895,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","appreciate","appreciation","brutality","exist","forfeit","hope","life","lose","opportunities","opportunity","privilege","savagery","thankful","thankfulness","thanks","thanksgiving"],"id":127042,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["civilized","crime","discovery","education","future","hatred","ignorance","income","killing","peace","philosophy","progress","savagery","science","truth","war"],"id":131300,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most “savage” or “barbarous” of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.","author":"Claude Lévi-Strauss","tags":["anthropology","barbarian","barbarism","cultural-differences","cultural-relativism","culture","ethnocentrism","savage","savagery"],"id":142389,"author_id":"Claude+L%C3%A9vi-Strauss"},{"text":"Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.","author":"Patrick Cockburn","tags":["cliche","conventional-thinking","euphemism","language","laziness","savagery","slaughter","war"],"id":155854,"author_id":"Patrick+Cockburn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bertrand De Jouvenel","tags":["government","power","savagery"],"id":164748,"author_id":"Bertrand+De+Jouvenel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}