Top Savage Quotes

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acqu...

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

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.

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.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.