Quotes for All
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its … Read more
Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn’t wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused to tell Holden Caulfield whether or not he had told Jane Gallagher what time it was, Holden Caulfield became enraged and attacked him in a fit or horological savagery, possibly … Read more
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. Don Winslow
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
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
Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery. Dean Koontz
Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets….What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find. Dan Rather
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the … Read more
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There’s no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. Cullen Hightower
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let’s hope we haven’t bought a round-trip ticket. Cullen Hightower