Savages Quotes - Page 15

• Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

  Mao Zedong

  Warrior, Mind, Body

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• Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. It is this "marry the rapist" theme that not only turned Sweet Savage Love into a best-seller but also into one of women's most enduring romance novels.

  Warren Farrell

  Sweet, Men, Hands

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Angel, Roots

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.161, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Spiritual, Practice, Understanding

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.131, Hackett Publishing

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• Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

  Edna Ferber

  Taming, Shrews, Married

  1958 Of Alaska. Ice Palace.

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• The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

  Frank Deford

  Sports, Football, League

  "Football Needs A Guardian, Not A CEO". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. July 09, 2013.

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• Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Men, Animal, Law

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• Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

  Charles Warren Stoddard

  Order, Perfect, Grace

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• Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Lying, Passion, Differences

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• The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Revenge, Men, Indulgence

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• The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.

  Jewel

  Atheism, Teeth, Flesh

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• Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.

  John Muir

  Life, Nature, Fun

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails”, p.73, e-artnow

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• This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Years, Civilization, Ideas

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.54, The Majority Press

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• Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Littles, Too Much

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• A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Men, Fruit

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• Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Home, Land

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Revenge, Passion, Men

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• Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Inspiration, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice: The Applause Shakespeare Library”, p.152, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Loss, Effectiveness, Musician

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.121, Penguin

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• Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes - tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Sarcasm, Emotional, Symphony

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• I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Children, Mean

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Civilization, Vision

  D. H. Lawrence (1962). “The Art of Perversity”

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• On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Cities, Perfect

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• I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.

  Christopher Nolan

  Art, Believe, Home

  "'Dark Knight' director Christopher Nolan calls movie theater attack 'savage,' 'devastating'", www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Get down, get naked, get savage.

  Ron Carlson

  Naked

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