Savage Quotes

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. (Plutarch)
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. View quote
George Santayana
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. View quote
William Congreve
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. View quote
William James
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. View quote
Erwin Rommel
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. View quote
Octavia Butler
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. View quote
John Dos Passos
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. (William Wordsworth)
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. View quote
Mark Twain
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. View quote
Elihu Root
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state. View quote
Thomas Malthus
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. View quote
William Ellery Channing
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. View quote
Edmund Burke
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. View quote
Anne Rice
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Davy Crockett
So geographers, in Afric Marriages, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. (Helen Rowland)
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. View quote
Mark Twain
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. View quote
Thomas Harris
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. View quote
Elihu Root
Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way. View quote
Bruce McCulloch