Savages Quotes - Page 11

• He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Flower, Heart, Law

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• But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Sweet, Brother, Tyrants

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• I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.

  Estwick Evans

  Men, Views, Civilization

  Estwick Evans (2007). “Evans's Pedestrious Tour”, p.102, Applewood Books

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• Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.

  Amy Johnson

  Sharks, Sea, Names

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• Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed?

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Christian, Daughter

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• The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.

  George Inness

  Art, Mistake, Men

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• The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Spoiled, Temper

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.609, e-artnow

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• Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Ocean, Native American

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.225, Xist Publishing

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• In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.

  John Dos Passos

  Spring, Fall, Years

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Country, Fashion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.44, Xist Publishing

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• Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Names, Verbs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Giants, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Village, Towns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Men, Support

  Ayn Rand's Ford Hall Forum lecture, 1974.

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• That tuft of jungle feathers,
  That animal eye,
  Is just what you say. That savage of fire,
  That seed,
  Have it your way. The world is ugly,
  And the people are sad.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Animal, Fire

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Siberia, Righteous

  Theodore Roosevelt (1894). “The Winning of the West”, p.45, U of Nebraska Press

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• How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Men, Productive Life

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• Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Done, Casting

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• Savage is he who saves himself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1190, Library of Alexandria

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• Every savage can dance.

  Jane Austen

  Dancing

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.241, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Heartbroken, Eye, Passion

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “A Little Princess”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Tyrants, Suspense

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Yoke, Bulls

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [271]

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• It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Fighting, Want

  Lawrence, D. H. (2014). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.177, Read Books Ltd

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• I take it you know my companion?" Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything." Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.

  Simon R. Green

  Journey, Fire, Important

  Simon R. Green (2016). “Deathstalker Honor”, p.317, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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