Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.
The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential and relegated to the logic of a savage market instrumentality.
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.
People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. Its very tribal in a way - savage!
We must kill the savage to save the man.
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. . . I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.
That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.