Savages Quotations | Page 2

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

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

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

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

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

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

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

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

"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

Get down, get naked, get savage.

Love was the most savage monster of all.

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.

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

Are we savages or what?

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

We're not savages. We're English.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

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, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

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.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.

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

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

If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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

Savage is he who saves himself.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

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.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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

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

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

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

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

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

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.

Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.