Best Savages Quotations
412 Savages quotes by 316 unique authors
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Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
— Josephine Baker
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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
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Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later…
— John Trudell
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The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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Only a more Savage Nation can survive.
— Michael Savage
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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
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I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very…
— Paul Gauguin
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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
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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
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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
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We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.
— George Galloway
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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
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But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
— Shirley Jackson
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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
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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
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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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Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by…
— Daniel Boone
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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
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It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have…
— Andrew Jackson
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Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it…
— William Henry Harrison
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