Savage Quotes

368 Savage quotes by 284 unique authors

Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send… — David Brainerd
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still… — Plato
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not.… — Joseph Brant
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us… — Luther Standing Bear
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius
Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he… — Thomas Merton
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life. — Josephine Baker
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is… — Noam Chomsky
Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream. — Hunter S. Thompson
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Unknown Author
Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the… — Ludwig von Mises
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. — Baron d'Holbach
Only a more Savage Nation can survive. — Michael Savage
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility… — Hector Berlioz
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no… — Ayn Rand
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led… — Mark Steyn
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same. — George Galloway
The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life… — Johann Gottfried Herder
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge.… — Philipp Meyer
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has… — Alexander Berkman
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do… — A. R. Ammons

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