Savages Quotes · Page 2

Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.

— Janet Morris

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

— Ricardo Flores Magon

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

— William Shakespeare

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Love was the most savage monster of all.

— Rick Riordan

I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.

— Jamie Hyneman

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

— Finley Peter Dunne

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

— Plutarch

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and…

— Benjamin Rush

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

— Andrei Sakharov

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

— Joseph Conrad

There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man…

— Josemaria Escriva

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Voltaire

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

— Tom Robbins

My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot…

— Frederic Chopin

If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage…

— Patricia Briggs

She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it…

— Nalini Singh

There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races…

— Anonymous

The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in…

— David Attenborough

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have…

— Mark Twain

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,…

— John Milton

Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the…

— Mark Steyn

As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into…

— Noam Chomsky

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés…

— Amy Johnson

Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we…

— Marine Le Pen

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of…

— George Inness

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

— Josh Billings

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

— William Faulkner

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

— Shirley Jackson

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

— Charles Warren Stoddard

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

— Gore Vidal

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

— Christian Nestell Bovee