Savages Quotes · Page 5

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

— Elbert Hubbard

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

— Mark Pagel

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

— P. J. Plauger

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded,…

— Lewis Mumford

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

— Polybius

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the…

— Francis Bacon

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's…

— Jim Jarmusch

Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your…

— Thomas Merton

We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of…

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

[Mel Gibson] had just directed The Passion [Of The Christ], and it had just been released as we started production on Complete…

— Keith Carradine

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power…

— William Ellery Channing

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by…

— Ida B. Wells

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they…

— Anonymous

And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And…

— Osip Mandelstam

War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the…

— Guy de Maupassant

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to…

— Johan Huizinga

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s…

— Mark Twain

I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought…

— Haruki Murakami

The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills…

— Kelley Armstrong

The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his…

— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.…

— Jacques Roumain

His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely…

— Walter Farley

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

— George Santayana

“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.”

— Patrick Süskind

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

— Pol Pot

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

— George Bernard Shaw

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it…

— Rudyard Kipling

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay…

— John Cheever

People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin.…

— Meredith Ostrom

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.

— William Golding

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

— Jewel

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

— Augusten Burroughs

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

— Anonymous

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

— Melina Marchetta

“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

— Benjamin Franklin

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.”

— William Golding

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

— David Ansen