'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe. — Plato Copy Share Image
“I’m not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes.… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I started doing drag in Seattle because I started doing my column before I moved here, and then moved here and wanted… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image