Quote by Adam Hochschild

“I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today…

— Alma Hogan Snell

“We are all savages”

— George Bernard Shaw

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t…

— Jules Verne

“There is a savagery in all of us,”

— Jane Johnson

“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

— John Ciardi

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

— George Catlin

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

— Jared Diamond

“Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries...for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill