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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there. -- Chris Kyle
Savage bears agree with one another. -- Juvenal
Savage is he who saves himself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body. -- Ancient Chinese Proverb
I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain. -- Jamie Hyneman
Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. -- Chris Kyle
'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream -- Hunter S. Thompson
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. -- Aldous Huxley
Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.] -- Juvenal
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie. -- Kristen Ashley
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization. -- Aldous Huxley
Fred Savage,he's America's sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent... I love him like a brother. -- Rob Lowe
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. -- William Butler Yeats
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself. -- Jeanette Winterson
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That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it. -- Rob Lowe
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. -- Anne Rice
I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!' -- Darren Hayes
"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage. -- Alexander Weinstein
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger. -- James Rollins
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
I see the booing as a nice bit of banter and at least it means the fans aren't bored. It's quality. I enjoy it to be honest and I'm getting it even more than Robbie Savage, which is really saying something. -- David Bentley
I take it you know my companion?" Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything." Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby. -- Simon R. Green
My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and he's smart, but he doesn't have any gadgets, he doesn't shoot fire and he doesn't fly. He's just old school, and I love that. -- Casper Crump
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I have to say for both of us [ with Adam Savage], this experience that we've been having here has changed us dramatically, and we've evolved since we've come on the scene with Mythbusters, because of what we've learned, and that, I think, is the biggest reward for us. -- Jamie Hyneman
What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism. -- Peter Breggin
Only a more Savage Nation can survive. -- Michael Savage
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. -- Henry David Thoreau
I have learned in fashion to be a little savage. -- John Fairchild
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. -- Michel de Montaigne
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. -- Thomas Harris
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. -- William Congreve
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. -- Victor Hugo
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. -- Isadora Duncan
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. -- William James
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. -- Douglas MacArthur
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. -- Charles Darwin
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. -- Ida B. Wells
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. -- George Jackson
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. -- Ayn Rand
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. -- Davy Crockett
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. -- Nelson Mandela
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
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. -- Noam Chomsky
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. -- Lafcadio Hearn
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. -- Emma Orczy
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. -- William Ellery Channing
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. -- Erwin Rommel
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. -- William Wordsworth
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. -- William E. Gladstone
When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice. -- Don Kardong
Every savage can dance. -- Jane Austen
Get down, get naked, get savage. -- Ron Carlson
A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear. -- Alan Davies
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror. -- Horace
Even savage animals can agree among themselves. -- Juvenal
Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast -- William Congreve
She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure. -- Catherynne M. Valente
The most savage people are also the ugliest. -- Mary Somerville
Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast." -- William Congreve
Love was the most savage monster of all. -- Rick Riordan
Civilize the mind but make savage the body. -- Mao Zedong
Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage. -- Terry Eagleton
Music is a savage art, a measured madness. -- Edward Abbey
I like to think I'm some savage realist. -- Nick Frost
The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage. -- Plato
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. -- Julius Caesar Scaliger
We must kill the savage to save the man. -- Richard Henry Pratt
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. -- William Shakespeare
Nature, in her untamed state, is savage and unrelenting. -- Fennel Hudson
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. -- George Saintsbury
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... -- Nikolai Gogol
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. -- Joe Abercrombie
Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage. -- Gore Vidal
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged. -- Janet Morris
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. -- Publilius Syrus
The most savage of human kind are the most advanced -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. -- William Faulkner
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change. -- Nelly
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew. -- Edna Ferber
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. -- Mark Twain
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. -- Voltaire
Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing. -- M.I.A.
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. -- William Winwood Reade
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. -- Charles Warren Stoddard
A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage. -- Connie Francis
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free. -- Emily Bronte
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage -- Mike Tyson
To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes. -- Finley Peter Dunne
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. -- Euripides
In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated. -- Ricardo Flores Magon
Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild. -- Dennis Rodman
The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty. -- Kim Harrison
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it. -- Thomas Harris
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. -- George Bernard Shaw
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation -- Joseph Conrad
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music. -- William Shakespeare
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. -- John Muir
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. -- H. G. Wells
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. -- Samuel Johnson
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. -- Arthur Brisbane
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. -- Jonathan Swift
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. -- Polybius
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious. -- Susan Sontag
Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade' -- David Ansen
Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium -- Horace
Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. -- Camille Paglia
Adolescence as the time when an individual "?recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. -- G. Stanley Hall

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