Savages Quotes - Page 4

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

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.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

Savage is he who saves himself.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.