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We're the noblest savages of all.
— Tom McCarthy
It seemed in life, whenever you were wanted, it was for some discussion or explanation. Silence was just something to be filled.
— Jessie Atkin
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages ...
— Theodore Roosevelt
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
— Josephine Baker
Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.
— Janet Morris
Savage bears agree with one another.
— Juvenal
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
— William Golding
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
— David Lloyd George
Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch ...
— John Geddes
The savages don't have atom bombs.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.
— George Galloway
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
— Publilius Syrus
Their humanity has been forgotten, Grinnell said of the predominant way most outsiders looked at Indians - as either savages or victims.
— Timothy Egan
When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages
hate them to the death. — Joseph Conrad
hate them to the death. — Joseph Conrad
...people do not want to hear that aliens are just like us. They want wise angels and noble savages.
— James L. Cambias
Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.
— Dennis Rodman
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
— Novalis
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
— Oscar Wilde
I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.
— Jamie Hyneman
Only a more Savage Nation can survive.
— Michael Savage
Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?
— Carol Ryrie Brink
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
— Eric Hoffer
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
— Thomas A. Edison
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
— Tennessee Williams
Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.
— Lance Conrad
How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.
— Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John Of Fawsley
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
— Robert E. Howard
I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages. — Sharon Olds
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages. — Sharon Olds
(K)ids are savages who haven't learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don't flinch from the truth.
— Brendan McGinley
The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.
— Brendan Sexton III
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
— George Saintsbury
They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.
— Joe Reyes
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
— George Saintsbury
In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated.
— Ricardo Flores Magon
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
— Pol Pot
[W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.
— Rafael Sabatini
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages Pt.1, 41
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Alone we are savages, together we are civilization
— Ashok K. Banker
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
— Benjamin Franklin
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.
— Augusten Burroughs
The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages
— Alfred Russel Wallace
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
— Polybius
He sketches a world of Darwinian struggle where all the savages wear three-piece suits.
— Stephen King
we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With
— Oscar Wilde
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.
— Swami Vivekananda
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
— Shirley Jackson
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
— George Santayana
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
— Edward Abbey
The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly
— Michael Crichton
This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages
— James G. Frazer
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
— Camille Paglia
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.
— William Winwood Reade
It was great to see the owls," I said.
She smiled.
"Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful. — David Almond
She smiled.
"Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful. — David Almond
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
— Plutarch
When the savages of Louisiana are desirous of fruit, they cut the tree to the root and gather the fruit. This is an emblem of despotic government.
— Montesquieu
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
— Zebulon Pike
The most savage people are also the ugliest.
— Mary Somerville
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.
— Katherine McNamara
A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.
— Connie Francis
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.
— Ayn Rand
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
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
— Elfriede Jelinek
He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.
— William Golding
To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
— Finley Peter Dunne
An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?
— David Grann
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
— William Golding
Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.
— David Gemmell
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
— Thomas Carlyle
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.
— Pamela Geller
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation
— Joseph Conrad
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
Ants and savages put strangers to death.
— Bertrand Russell
Her darling little tech-savvy, consumerist savages.
— Liane Moriarty
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
— Edward Abbey
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
— Samuel Johnson
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
— Thomas Malthus
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.
— Nicola Yoon
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
[Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.] — Ovid
[Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.] — Ovid
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.
— Jeanette Winterson