We are all savages

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

— George Bernard Shaw

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

— Aldous Huxley

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not…

— Paul McCartney

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

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…

— Lisa Kleypas

In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the…

— John Dos Passos

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Pol Pot

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders,…

— Laurie Holden

Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could…

— Bryan Fischer

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…

— Henry David Thoreau

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a…

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

— George Santayana

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon