Savages Quotes

• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

  Robert E. Howard

  Live Life, Men, Civilization

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands”, p.31, Del Rey

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.85, BookBaby

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• When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.

  Herman Melville

  Thug, Rome, Years

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• Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Manners

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.368, Hackett Publishing

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• Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Tools, Barbarians

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• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Race, World

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.218, Diversion Books

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Progress Of Society, Civilization

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.77, Penguin

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• Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Sorry, Men, Giving

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• There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Inspiration, Men

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.170, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• 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 stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Nature, Science

  "Early history of the University of Virginia : as contained in the letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, hitherto unpublished". Book by Thomas Jefferson, 1856.

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• I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Determination, Years, Drunk

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• We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

  William Golding

  Pride, Lord, Piggy

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• We're not savages. We're English.

  William Golding

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• The savages don't have atom bombs.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Atoms, Bombs, Literature

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• The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Anger, Math, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.67, Routledge

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• Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Dwelling, Credit

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.36, 谷月社

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

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Real, Cities, Desire

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.6845, e-artnow

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Hate, Darkness, Entry

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.36, eKitap Projesi

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• In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

  Pamela Geller

  War, Islamic, Men

  FaceBook post by Pamela Geller from Dec 05, 2016

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• 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

  Marriage, Humorous, Food

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.22, Litres

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• Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

  Euripides

  Ocean, Earth, Produce

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

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