Savages Quotes - Page 23

• 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, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

  Margaret Murray

  Religious, Race, Views

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• We must kill the savage to save the man.

  Richard Henry Pratt

  Men, He Man

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• Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours,
  Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,
  as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned
  from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively
  an interaction of man on man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Ratios, Population

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.127, University of Michigan Press

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• I have heard about the civilized,
  the marriages run on
  talk, elegant and
  honest, rational.
  But and I are savages.

  Sharon Olds

  I Love You, Running, Honest

  Sharon Olds, “Primitive”

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• Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Sweet, Thinking, Way

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• Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Civilization, People

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!

  Denise Crosby

  Mean Girls, Warrior, Men

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• Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.

  Joseph Warren

  Hands, Arrows, Doe

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• Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

  Kristen Ashley

  Lying, Numbers, Doubt

  Kristen Ashley (2011). “Rock Chick”, p.30, Rock Chick LLC

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• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

  Thomas Huxley

  Cutting, Science, Common Sense

  "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854)

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• The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.

  Richard Hakluyt

  History, Ignorant, Divinity

  Richard Hakluyt (1935). “The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts”

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• We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Art, Slavery, Invasion

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

  Polybius

  Historical, Democracy, Aristocracy

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• Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Thinking, Political

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

  Josephine Baker

  Daily Life, Stage, Civilized

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• The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

  Elihu Root

  War, Wish, Facts

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is some meaning to their lives beyond what we agree is the case. I'd never try to talk them out of the delusions, which are necessary for them to live a life that makes some sense to them. These beliefs can provide a framework for deeds that are noble or savage, and anywhere in between, and there's every reason to focus attention on the deeds and the background for them, to the extent that we can grasp it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Thinking, Focus

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• There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Attitude, Animal, Men

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Years, Pagan

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• Only a more savage nation can survive.

  Michael Savage

  Nations

  "SAVAGE TALK / A former herbalist has remade himself into the vitriol-spewing king of the Bay Area's afternoon drive time". Interview with Dan Fost, www.sfgate.com. February 6, 2003.

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• Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

  George Saintsbury

  Humor, Curious, Humour

  George Saintsbury (1950). “A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers”

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• The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.

  Philipp Meyer

  Children, Growing Up, Animal

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• Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through

  A. R. Ammons

  Grief, Loss, Errors

  A.R. Ammons (2013). “Basura y otros poemas”, p.20, LUMEN

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