Savages Quotes:

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.

topic: Savages

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

topic: Pride, Savages, Nationalism, Piggy

source: W. Meitcke, William Golding (1984). “William Golding's Lord of the Flies”, p.49, Barron's Educational Series

topic: Animal, Savages, Humans

Are we savages or what?

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

topic: Savages

- William Winwood Reade

source: William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.242

topic: Doubt, Savages, Offspring

"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.

- Alexander Weinstein

topic: Honesty, Want, Savages, Complete Honesty

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Cities, Savages, Dangerous

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

- Cam'ron

source: Song: Down And Out, Album: Purple Haze, 2004

topic: Running, Zoos, Savages

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

- David Ansen

topic: Passion, Play, Savages

Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.

- Zachary Cole Smith

topic: Thinking, People, Savages

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

- Pamela Geller

topic: Freedom, Savages, Speech

In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated.

- Ricardo Flores Magon

source: Ricardo Flores Magón (2000). “Correspondencia: Correspondencia 1 (1899-1918)”

topic: Names, Justice, Savages

If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.

- Roger Casement

source: Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

topic: Fighting, Men, Savages

Get down, get naked, get savage.

- Ron Carlson

topic: Naked, Savages

I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.

- Jamie Hyneman

topic: Pain, Savages, Adam

I have to say for both of us [ with Adam Savage], this experience that we've been having here has changed us dramatically, and we've evolved since we've come on the scene with Mythbusters, because of what we've learned, and that, I think, is the biggest reward for us.

- Jamie Hyneman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Savages, Rewards, Mythbusters

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

source: Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 11, 2008.

topic: Girl, Running, Savages

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1843). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.193

topic: Animal, Words Of Wisdom, Savages, Sulky

Savage is he who saves himself.

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1190, Library of Alexandria

topic: Savages

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.

- Charles Kingsley

source: "The Water of Life and Other Sermons". Book by Charles Kingsley, "The Meteor Shower", November 26, 1866.

topic: Mind, Savages, Way

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

source: "A Victory" by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1958.

topic: Doe, Savages, Lucky, Senseless Violence

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Hazards, Savages, Purpose

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

- Cheryl Strayed

source: "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

topic: Mother, Self, Savages

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.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Civilization, Two, Savages

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Privilege, Serious, Savages, Affiliation, Clauses

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

topic: Women, Bird, Savages, Fly Away

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.

- Jewel

topic: Atheism, Teeth, Savages

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

- Susan Sontag

topic: Jobs, Important, Savages

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

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

topic: Children, Heredity And Environment, Savages, Heredity

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.556, Clap Publishing, LLC.

topic: Men, Ideas, Savages, Brothers Karamazov

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

- G. Stanley Hall

topic: Past, Race, Savages

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: "Locksley Hall" l. 168 (1842)

topic: Race, Savages

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

- Alfred Russel Wallace

source: Alfred Russel Wallace (1900). “Studies Scientific & Social”

topic: Men, White Man, Savages

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.25, Tara Publishing

topic: Children, Believe, Savages

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.

- Tanith Lee

source: Tanith Lee (1996). “The Gods are Thirsty”, Overlook Books

topic: Desire, Savages, Deeds, Crippled

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.

- Plato

topic: Athlete, Men, 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.

- Plato

topic: Animal, Men, Savages

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

- Plato

source: Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

topic: Athlete, Savages, Too Much, Athletics

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

- Pol Pot

source: Source: natethayer.typepad.com

topic: Savages, Looks, Look At Me

I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay.

- Joe R. Lansdale

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Book, Savages, Actors, Christina

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.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.9, University of Georgia Press

topic: War, Savages, Idiot, Frenchmen

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

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3219, e-artnow

topic: Savages, Christianity, Conversion

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

- Terry Eagleton

topic: Scratches, Savages

Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.

- George Osborne

source: Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

topic: Country, Cutting, Savages, Spending Cuts

I started doing drag in Seattle because I started doing my column before I moved here, and then moved here and wanted to be able to go out and do things as Dan Savage without being recognized the next day, because the column was just in Seattle and it was kind of a sensation and I was beating people up. I was really worried and I didn't want to beat somebody up in a column and have that person know what I look like when I didn't know what they looked like.

- Dan Savage

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Next Day, People, Savages

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

- George R. R. Martin

source: George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.751, Bantam

topic: Children, Savages, Lions, Tyrion

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

- George Santayana

topic: Men, Laughing, Savages

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

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French revolution. A history”, p.210

topic: Men, Civilization, Savages

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

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press

topic: Nature, Savages, Elements

- John Dewey

source: John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

topic: Order, Savages, Might

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

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.94

topic: Life, Weather, Savages, One Hour

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Paris, Independence, Savages

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

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

topic: God, Savages, Desert

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

topic: Children, Names, Savages

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.

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.83, Harvard University Press

topic: Education, Giants, Savages, Druids

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

topic: Jesus, Savages, Village, Favoritism

- Ann Coulter

source: "Media Hit Job Of The Year: The Punishment of Helen Thomas headshot" by Danny Schechter, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2010.

topic: Civilization, Savages

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.

- Dave Barry

topic: Savages, Body, Clubs, Bash

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Art, Savages, Literature, Modern Art

'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

- David Gemmell

source: "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 2, 1990.

topic: Savages, Handsome, Way

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

- Gore Vidal

source: "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

topic: United States, Savages, Done

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

- Gore Vidal

source: "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

topic: Savages

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.

- David Mitchell

topic: Cutting, Parent, Savages

Love was the most savage monster of all.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.218, Penguin UK

topic: Monsters, Savages

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

- Augusten Burroughs

source: Source: www.goodreads.com

topic: Dark, People, Savages, Uncivilized

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.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Savages, Needs, Scales

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Elephants, Savages, Maps, Geographers

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

- B. B. King

topic: Thinking, Savages, Beast

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

- Dennis Rodman

topic: Running, Savages, Beast, Running Wild

That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.

- Rob Lowe

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Proud, Savages, Lucky, Grinder

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.167, Hachette UK

topic: Sweet, Savages, Gentle

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

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.36, eKitap Projesi

topic: Hate, Darkness, Savages, Heart Of Darkness, Entry

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

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.609, e-artnow

topic: Ocean, Savages, Spoiled, Adulation

Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Men, Savages, Tools

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

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Savages, Weapons, Existence

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.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.320, Library of Alexandria

topic: Christian, Prayer, Savages

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

- Voltaire

topic: Play, Imagination, Savages

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

- Voltaire

source: Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.390, e-artnow

topic: Book, Reading, Savages

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

source: Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

topic: Men, Experience, Savages

- Michael Ian Black

source: Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

topic: Writing, Savages, Conducting, Putting Yourself Out There

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.

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?

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Hoe, Savages, Half

- Jules Verne

topic: Feet, Savages, Professors

The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.

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

source: Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.189, Penguin

topic: Reality, Ideas, Savages, Semblance, Slough