Quotes with savages

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

  Hervey Allen
  American author (1889 - 1949)
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• Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• We're not savages. We're English.

  Lord of the Flies

  William Golding
  British writer (1911 - 1993)
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• What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

  Lord of the Flies

  William Golding
  British writer (1911 - 1993)
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• Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• retentiveness
• understanding
• non-violence
• generation
• philosophy
• importance

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