WIST QuotationsJan 18

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless, and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape — the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes — we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 8, Guards! Guards! (1989)

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Pratchett, Terry - Discworld No. 8, Guards! Guards! (1989) | WIST Quotations

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless, and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape -- the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths…

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WolfaroNov 4
A Prequel of the Banana's moon Transformation i did for @ageaus
Dugun is starting to being affected by the Light of this unusual phenomenon, the cursed light it is calling a beast that it is going to terrorize the canyon for the rest of the night. #Wolfaroart #TFEveryday #Transformation #Transfur #Musclegain #Were #Gorilla #Primate #Starting #Savagery #Moon
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 15

A quotation from Montaigne

Every man calls barbarous anything he is not accustomed to.
 
[Chacun appelle barbarie, ce qui n’est pas de son usage.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 30 (1.30), “Of Cannibals [Des Cannibales]” (1578) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.31]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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John Griogair BellSep 4, 2025

“the God-idea must go with other relics of the Fear born of Ignorance into the limbo of savagery. … we cannot allow people who believe in this ‘God;’ they are troglodytes, as dangerous to society as any other thieves and murderers. The Christians to the Lions!”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/09/04/the-god-idea-must-go-with-other-relics-of-the-fear-born-of-ignorance-into-the-limbo-of-savagery-we-cannot-allow-people-who-believe-in-this-god-they-are-troglodytes-as-dangerous-to-s/

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JayJun 12, 2025

The #savagery of life in barbaric #Russia.

In #Kazan, a car of #Putin's goons gets offended when another car passes them.

They'll likely face torture, be robbed, and all other core elements of Russian culture

#RussiaIsATerroristState #UkraineRussiaWar

JayJun 2, 2025

The #savagery of #Russia..

A #Russian woman complains that the russian #POW's that were exchanged in last week's huge 1000 for 1000 exchange were punished when they reached Russian soil, phones, personal belongings taken, now headed back to the front.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #Putin

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 16, 2025

A quotation from Mark Twain

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 Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Following the Equator, ch. 21 (1897)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/twain-mark/3920/

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alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇Mar 19, 2025

I'm sorry to say it, but when I come here and actually read some of the news about the wars I get horrified. I feel that war is just a cover word for murder.

#21thcentury #savagery

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jan 28, 2025

A quotation from Emerson

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda, — these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, expensive races, — race living at the expense of race.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Fate,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 1

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jul 1, 2024

A quotation from Twain, Mark:

«
There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/twain-mark/3920/

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Following the Equator, ch. 21 (1897) - Twain, Mark | WIST Quotations

There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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