Quotes About Savage

I think this was the first time I ever experienced the savagery that lies in the human heart. I could never find pleasure studying under this teacher. But I acquired a determination to work so hard that this teacher would never be able to criticize me again.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.

I dare say that we are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.

Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So, what is football doing to us as a people? How do we explain an America that alone in the world so loves this savage sport?

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

The thing looked cut and dried to them. A nasty affair between two rather nasty people, too much loving, too much drinking, too much proximity ending in a savage hatred and a murderous impulse and death.

The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.

the backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning.

often the worst behavior in the wake of a calamity is on the part of those who believe that others will behave savagely and that they themselves are taking defensive measures against barbarism.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.