Savages Quotes

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

Alone we are savages, together we are civilization

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.

A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.