Plutarch Quotes

Are you not ashamed to mix tame fruits with blood and slaughter? You are indeed wont to call serpents, leopards, and lions savage creatures; but yet yourselves are defiled with blood, and come nothing behind them in cruelty. What they kill is their ordinary nourishment, but what you kill is your better fare.

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• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Women
  • America
  • Savage

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Determination
  • Drunk

• By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • High
  • Savage

• Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Death
  • Alone
  • Ethics

• The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • People
  • Savage

• 'Man's inhumanity to man' is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Truth
  • Struggle
  • Lies

• Who killed John Keats?'I,' says the Quarterly,So savage and Tartarly;''Twas one of my feats.'

  

  Lord Byron
  • Savage

• The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilisation, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • People
  • Savage

• Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Savage

• The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,A chafing savage, down the decent street;And passion rends my vitals as I pass,Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.

  

  Claude McKay
  • Passion
  • Door
  • Savage

• Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox...

  

  Lu Xun
  • Lion
  • Savage

• Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.

  

  Levi Woodbury
  • Savage

• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Peace
  • Violence

• Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Truth
  • Moving
  • Powerful

• So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Men
  • Black
  • Savage

• I don't believe in diets.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Believe

• I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Country
  • Hand
  • Serious

• I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote 'Savage Season,' and I wanted to write a modern version of that. I had tried the same thing with 'Cold in July,' and I wanted to give it another go.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Cold
  • Gold
  • Savage

• I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Garden

• I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. … Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?

  

  Jim Starlin
  • Different
  • Why

• Bob Hope: finding some coins tied with string in Jack's trousers When you ask this kid for a loan, and he says his money is tied up, he isn't kidding. This is an obstacle course for pickpockets.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Up
  • Money
  • Hope

• It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • True

• Are you not ashamed to mix tame fruits with blood and slaughter? You are indeed wont to call serpents, leopards, and lions savage creatures; but yet yourselves are defiled with blood, and come nothing behind them in cruelty. What they kill is their ordinary nourishment, but what you kill is your better fare.

  

  Plutarch
  • Savage