Savages Quotes - Page 5

Are we savages or what?

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

I have to say for both of us [ with Adam Savage], this experience that we've been having here has changed us dramatically, and we've evolved since we've come on the scene with Mythbusters, because of what we've learned, and that, I think, is the biggest reward for us.

The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.

No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.