Savages famous quotes
04-09-2025
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
-- Adam McKay -
One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
-- Alain Badiou -
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
-- Aldous Huxley -
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
-- Amandla Stenberg -
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.
-- Andrei Sakharov -
When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
-- Angus Young -
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.
-- Anne Rice -
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
Alone we are savages, together we are civilization
-- Ashok K. Banker -
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
-- August Strindberg -
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
-- Beatrix Potter -
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
-- Benjamin Rush -
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.
-- Bernd Heinrich -
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.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.
-- Brendan Sexton III -
Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.
-- Bruce McCulloch -
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
-- Camille Paglia -
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.
-- Connie Francis -
It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
-- Darren Shan -
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom
-- David Brainerd -
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
-- David Lloyd George -
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
-- Davy Crockett -
The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.
-- Dennis Holme Robertson -
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
-- Edith Hamilton -
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
-- Edna Ferber -
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
-- Edward Abbey -
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
-- Elfriede Jelinek -
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.
-- Eva Hoffman -
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
-- Farley Mowat -
To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.
-- Frantz Fanon -
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.
-- G. Stanley Hall -
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.
-- George Eliot -
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.
-- George Galloway -
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.
-- George Jackson -
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
-- George Saintsbury -
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
-- George Saintsbury -
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
-- George Santayana -
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
-- George Santayana -
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.
-- Georges Bernanos -
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.
-- Gustave Le Bon -
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
-- Henry Home, Lord Kames -
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.
-- Henry Kirke White -
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.
-- Herbert Schiller -
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
-- Hervey Allen -
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)
-- Jack London -
Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls....
-- James A. Murphy III -
This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages
-- James G. Frazer -
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.
-- James G. Frazer -
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
-- James Mark Baldwin -
Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.
-- Janet Morris -
When I was on Complete Savages, the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.
-- Jason Dolley -
The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.
-- Jeff Cooper -
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
-- Jerome Isaac Friedman -
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
-- Joe Abercrombie -
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.
-- John Cheever -
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
-- John Ciardi -
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
-- John Hanning Speke -
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
-- John Muir -
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.
-- John Trudell -
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
-- Josephine Baker -
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?
-- Jules Verne -
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
-- Julius Caesar Scaliger -
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.
-- Lactantius -
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
-- Lafcadio Hearn -
Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.
-- M.I.A. -
Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.
-- Mary Collyer -
The most savage people are also the ugliest.
-- Mary Somerville -
People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. Its very tribal in a way - savage!
-- Meredith Ostrom -
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.†I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
-- Nawal El Saadawi -
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.
-- Nelly -
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...
-- Nikolai Gogol -
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.
-- Novalis -
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
-- Ovid -
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
-- Plutarch -
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.
-- Plutarch -
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.
-- Pol Pot -
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
-- Polybius -
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
-- Publilius Syrus -
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
-- Ramsey Clark -
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.
-- Ranulph Fiennes -
We must kill the savage to save the man.
-- Richard Henry Pratt
