Savages Quotes · Page 7

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.

— Marquis de Lafayette

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

— David Lloyd George

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

— Cormac McCarthy

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

— Edward Abbey

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

— John Muir

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only…

— Learned Hand

Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of…

— David Brainerd

I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would…

— Allen West

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and…

— Ranulph Fiennes

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession,…

— William H. Wharton

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There…

— Georges Bernanos

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was…

— Jack London

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is…

— Plato

Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage"…

— Luther Standing Bear

This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons…

— Marcus Garvey

I started doing drag in Seattle because I started doing my column before I moved here, and then moved here and wanted…

— Dan Savage

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior…

— Philipp Meyer

Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes.…

— Pablo Neruda

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

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

To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an…

— James Boswell

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an…

— George Catlin

Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful…

— Georgie Henley

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

— Tom Robbins

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Josemaria Escriva

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

— Voltaire

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

— William Shakespeare

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

— James G. Frazer

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

— Camille Paglia

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

— Ovid

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

— James Mark Baldwin

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

— Arthur Brisbane

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the…

— Novalis