Savage Quotes

368 Savage quotes by 284 unique authors

It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. — G. Stanley Hall
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. — William Winwood Reade
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the… — George Catlin
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. — Bernd Heinrich
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of… — Johan Huizinga
It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing… — Ranulph Fiennes
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . .… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. — Belva Ann Lockwood
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to… — Pope Pius XII
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. — William Butler Yeats
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee… — William Shakespeare
There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains… — Charles Dickens
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model,… — Evo Morales
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his… — Anatole France
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to… — Georges Bernanos
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant… — Richard Hakluyt
What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by… — Ronald Hutton
The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view… — Margaret Murray
We must kill the savage to save the man. — Richard Henry Pratt

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