Bankruptcy – a peculiar institution that enabled an individual, who had failed in competitive industry, to forego paying his debts. The effect was to ameliorate the too savage conditions of the fang-and-claw social struggle.”

Every savage can dance.

He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.

I consider the Arabs not as foes but as cousins. In any event, when we are in a savage clash with them, they are, to a greater extent, a sort of family – with all the issues of a family. We need to live with them.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

There is nothing wrong with electricity; nothing except that modern man is not a god who holds the thunderbolts but a savage who is struck by lightning.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

I’m like a chicken nugget or something you just wanna put your barbeque sauce all up on it

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.