Adam Savage Quotes
Bigger is always better.
Savage, Adam. "Jaws Special." MythBusters, season 3, episode 17, Discovery Channel, 17 July 2005.
The “We” to which he was referring were the British officials and civil servants who governed all of India as a colony of the British Empire.
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This statement was widely interpreted to be a statement of Western Christian superiority over the Muslim world.
See {611922} and {611923}. The Sultan proved prophetic. His troops soundly defeated the French and then beheaded tens of thousands of French prisoners. The King was captured and ransomed. The Sultan however, despite his victory, was overthrown and killed.
It was not uncommon for monarchs to be treated as gods. Most began to believe it themselves. Alexander, however, had no such delusions of grandeur and simply used it as a device to amass power and influence.
Indeed she did. In actuality, she was the ruler of the largest nation on Earth. However, she was not a very clever ruler and actually was responsible for keeping China very backward and weak because she was convinced that China was the most advanced of nations and very strong. Therefore nothing should be changed. Over 5 decades with no change is sure to make a nation backward, even if it started as advanced. See {620090}.
In early WWII, he opposed the Japanese military practice of killing conquered civilian people to instill fear and make them accept occupation. (In this case in occupied Indonesia). He was arrested by the military and sentenced to death, but he never was executed. Though not generally known, there were a number of Japanese who opposed the Japanese military policies and practices. He was one.
This quotation shows that the racism and master race of Nazi Germany was a norm in Germany well before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It was an endemic part of the culture. This makes the German post WWII reforms all the more remarkable as the vast majority of an entire nation had to radically change its world and personal views and perceptions.
This is the philosophical root of Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism. If this principle is accepted, then it is very easy to rationalize anything to change a situation where Islam and Islamic law does not control anywhere
Adam Whitney Savage is an American special effects designer and fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality and producer, known as the former co-host (with Jamie Hyneman) of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction. His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded. He is the host of the TV program Savage Builds, which premiered on the Science Channel on June 14, 2019.
