Quotes about savages
savages manners
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. Benjamin Franklin
savages states refusal
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. Arthur Brisbane
savages needs scales
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage. Denis Diderot
savages body clubs
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute? Aleister Crowley
savages foundation essentials
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery. Andrei Sakharov
savages ghost without-god
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. Thomas Huxley
savages degrees evolution
'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence. Robert A. Heinlein
savages manners refined
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... Nikolai Gogol
savages nations
Only a more Savage Nation can survive. Michael Savage
savages lucky cost
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers. Jean-Paul Sartre
savages christianity conversion
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. George Bernard Shaw
savages
Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage. Gore Vidal
savages pleasure disposition
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.] Ovid
savages backyards fairy
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right. Kim Harrison
savages
Savage is he who saves himself. Leonardo da Vinci
savages stones
Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell. Malcolm Muggeridge
savages shame vacant
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside. John Cheever
savages fierce get-away
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. Octavia Butler
savages belief hallmark
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. Joe Abercrombie
savages handsome way
Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways. David Gemmell
savages looks look-at-me
Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. Pol Pot
savages mars venus
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. Lactantius
savages daily-life stage
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life. Josephine Baker
savages
Are we savages or what? William Golding
savages
We're not savages. We're English.