Savages Quotes

I`m getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn`t matter how well you`re looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you`re away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you`re a stranger, the kid cries and the wife`s stuck to your face!

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. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.