The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.
A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.
