Savages Quotes

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

Savage is he who saves himself.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Are we savages or what?

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.