Savage Quotes

368 Savage quotes by 284 unique authors

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble… — Sam Peckinpah
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie. — Kristen Ashley
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it… — Joseph Warren
I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I… — Denise Crosby
Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way. — Bruce McCulloch
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. — Swami Vivekananda
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed… — Tom Robbins
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too… — Lactantius
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and… — John Hanning Speke
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and… — Nelson A. Miles
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. — James Mark Baldwin
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to… — John Dos Passos
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature… — Elihu Root
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage… — William Robertson Smith
Even savage animals can agree among themselves. — Juvenal
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in… — Swami Vivekananda
From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized… — Henry David Thoreau
The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage. — Plato
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the… — Plato
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. — Mark Twain
A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage. — Connie Francis
If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that… — Roger Casement
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than… — D. H. Lawrence
On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important… — Christopher Nolan

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