“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”
“It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .”
“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…”
“There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.”
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”