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Quotes About Savage

But value dwells no in particular will, said the Savage. It holds his estimate and dignity as well wherein 'tis precious of itself as in the prizer.
~ Aldous Huxley
the extreme ugliness of her appearance, the Savage frequently goes to see her and appears to be much attached to her - an interesting example of the way in which early conditioning can be made to change and even run against natural responses (in this case, the natural response to draw back from an unpleasant object).' ***
~ Aldous Huxley
In the course of their next two or three meetings he frequently repeated this little act of vengeance. It was simple and, since both Helmholtz and the Savage were dreadfully pained by the shattering and defilement of a favourite poetic crystal, extremely effective.
~ Aldous Huxley
As for herself, she returned to her seat with a smile of savage scorn upon her lips, and she blasphemously repeated the fearful name of that God by whom she had just sworn, without ever having learned to know Him. My God! said she. Fanatical fool! -My God is myself; and whoever will assist in my revenge!
~ Alexandre Dumas
They are savage for knowledge, for beauty and truth. They crawl on their knees to find it.
~ Dorianne Laux
to be an elite warrior was to strike savagely, without hesitation or second-guessing. No queasiness over hurting an opponent, no mercy, and no stopping to congratulate oneself. Nothing but focus, speed, confidence, and savage intent.
~ Douglas E. Richards
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
~ Novalis
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
~ Jonathan Swift
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
say one thing for Logen Ninefinger, say he's a cunt.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.
~ Anna Kavan
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
Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
~ John Hanning Speke
We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
~ Goodluck Jonathan
When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster. When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.
~ Robin Hobb
The more ill-prepared people are to face trouble, the more likely they are to revert to savagery against each other.
~ Louis L'Amour
We live in wild country, sir. I know folks who think all wild things are sweet and cuddly, but they've never come into a henhouse after a weasel has been there. He can drink the blood of only one or two, but often as not he'll kill every one of them. Wolves will do it in a pen of lambs, too. There are savage beasts in the world, Mr. Chantry, and men who are just as savage.
~ Louis L'Amour
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don't count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages
~ Rudyard Kipling
He ate breakfast like a savage: quantities of leavened bread, chunks of cheese made from cows' milk, and coffee drowned in cows' milk too, which he called galão – things that no right-minded person would eat at the beginning of the day.)
~ Salman Rushdie
From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville