Savages Quotes - Page 2

Only a more savage nation can survive.

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

The most savage people are also the ugliest.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

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 throughout the world.

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

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 fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

We must kill the savage to save the man.

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

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 here also we find the wild pig.