Top Savage Quotes

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . ....

Savage Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

(a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.

(a.) Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.

(a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.

(n.) A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.

(n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.

(v. t.) To make savage.

She had known that he could move quickly. Still it was a shock when she found herself pressed against the back of her seat, his face inches from her.God's blood, woman, how much control do you think I...

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage st...

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Human mind is the only real hope for the future of humanity! Have faith in human mind which is the only instrument who can protect you in this savage universe!

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to i...

It is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a syllable,Out of these gawky flitterings,Intones its single emptiness,The savagest hollow of winter-sou...

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

Savage and unpredictable, a woman, like the sea, takes what she wants and spits the remains back into the boiling cauldron of humanity ...

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.

Michael Savage turns on a microphone and broadcasts his opinions to faithful followers who enjoy listening to his views on politics, social issues, and anything else that this colorful, provocative, e...

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...

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.

Let me alone, said MildredLet alone! He almost cried out with laughter. Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave alone? That's what's wrong. We need to be let alone. We need to be upset and s...

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, w...