The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.
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 various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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