savagery

• “There is a realm of anthropology in this lower state of mankind which we call savagery, that is hard to understand from the standpoint of modern civilization, where science, theology, religion, medicine and the esthetic arts are developed as more or less discrete subjects.”

  Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891

• “While some of the comments there have provoked my ire, the underlying cause of my savagery is the growing realisation that the core activity of this blog – and the cause to which I have devoted three decades of my life – is a complete waste of time and effort, an utter, dismal and unremitting failure.”

  Our own worst enemies

• “Well, those pressures are everywhere in everyone, urging him to what you call savagery: the private hells, the inner needs and mysteries, the beast of instinct.”

  Requiem For Methuselah

• “While the natives of Torres Straits are, or were at the time of their discovery, in the condition which we call savagery, they stand on a far higher level of social and intellectual culture than the rude aborigines of Australia.”

  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

• “She outgames him, out-savages him, teaches him what savagery is in its intimate mood and tense.”

  CHAPTER XII

• “Born in savagery, having lived in savagery all their lives and known naught else, their sense of humour was correspondingly savage.”

  CHAPTER VII

• “His punishment for such savagery is transformation.”

  The Guardian: Ten of the best

• “Truly, the veneer between civilized thought and jungle savagery is thinner than I ever thought. hardtruth”

  CPAC Warmongering Etc. « Antiwar.com Blog

• “The reference here emphasizes how the castaways are alone on the island without any law but their own and thus the possibility of savagery is great.”

  "Lost" Viewing guides « Peace Corps: China

• “Only about a seventh of game titles sold in 2005 were the racy or violent stuff that draws an M (for “mature”) rating; the stereotype that video games are nothing but antisocial savagery is just that — a stereotype.”

  Sex, Lies, and Videogames

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