Savage Quotes

368 Savage quotes by 284 unique authors

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races… — Charles Darwin
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control… — Lafcadio Hearn
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. — Victor Hugo
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to… — George Jackson
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the… — William James
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of.… — Daniel Day-Lewis
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved… — Douglas MacArthur
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply… — Nelson Mandela
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was… — Paul McCartney
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You… — Ian Mcewan
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents. — David Mitchell
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. — Michel de Montaigne
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the… — Ayn Rand
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against… — Erwin Rommel
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. — Bertrand Russell
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. — Henry David Thoreau
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if… — Jessamyn West
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting… — William Wordsworth
When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to… — Angus Young
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality. — C.S. Lewis
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. — Mark Twain
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous. — Nawal El Saadawi

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