Quotes for All
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. Ariana Franklin
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. Annie Lennox
No one is safe from nature’s savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. Anne Rice
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true – that savagery begets only savagery. Andrei Sakharov
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. Alfred North Whitehead
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.
A.J. Ayer
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, with hatred and savagery – naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives – according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
A. C. Cuza