Savages Quotes - Page 6

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

Love was the most savage monster of all.

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.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

Every savage can dance.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.