The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
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There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
I like to think I'm some savage realist.
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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