There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Mark TwainTags: civilization savages
If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.
Melina MarchettaTags: existence savages weapon
A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.
Dale CarnegieTags: savages suffering-life civilized-beings
I’m not—
Lady Macbeth
Lucrezia Borgia
Catherine the Great. I am
—a woman doing what she has to do. I am
—the woman you made me.
Elena is at war.
Tags: savages don-winslow
The boys quiet until Ben looks across the table at Chon, holds his thumb and index finger a millimeter apart, and says, “We’re that close to being gay.”
They laugh for half an hour.
Collective dicks
Tags: savages ben o ophelia chon
He feels
ennui
depression
adrift in his life. Purposeless, perhaps because
—dig a well in the Sudan and thejanjaweed come in and shoot the people anyway
—buy mosquito nets and the boys
you save grow up to
—rape women
—set up cottage industries in Myanmar and the army
—steals them and uses the women as slaves and
Ben is starting to be afraid that he is starting to share Chon’s opinion of the human species
that people are basically
shit.
Tags: savages ben o ophelia chon
In his mind’s eye, though, he sees—
—Taliban
moving like scorpions across a similar landscape
his own caravan blown to shit
blood streaming from buddies
Now I’m one of them
He sights in again.
No time for
Lack of PTSD
He only hopes that
Gentle Ben
Increase-the-Peace Ben
is one of them, too, now.
Now, Ben.
Find your inner Taliban.
...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...
John GeddesTags: savages mankind monsters sasquatch
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