Quote by Herman Melville

“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.”

— Herman Melville

“I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.”

— Herman Melville

“a full-blooded Seneca Iroquois sachem, Ely S. Parker, who grew up on an Indian reservation in upstate New York and was a chief of…

— Ron Chernow

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.

— Marquis de Lafayette

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

— William P. Young

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live…

— St. Jerome

War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of…

— Guy de Maupassant

Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is…

— Stephen King

“He imagined the world without men. Cities would be reclaimed by nature and overgrown until, hundreds of years hence, they would look much like…

— Tim Curran

“If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form…

— Paul Auster

Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of…

— Herman Melville