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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. -- Benjamin Franklin
The savages don't have atom bombs. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. -- Ambrose Bierce
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. -- Robert E. Howard
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. -- Rudyard Kipling
We're not savages. We're English. -- William Golding
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. -- Henry David Thoreau
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. -- Shirley Jackson
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. -- Thomas Jefferson
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. -- William Congreve
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell
When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death. -- Joseph Conrad
In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad -- Pamela Geller
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. -- Diane Ackerman
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. -- William Golding
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. -- Mark Twain
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. -- Helen Rowland
When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that. -- Jason Dolley
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
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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
I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor. -- Gbenga Akinnagbe
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. -- Frederick Douglass
In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage. -- Jonathan Gottschall
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. -- Samuel Johnson
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I was on Complete Savages, the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that. -- Jason Dolley
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. -- Benjamin Franklin
Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you're surprised to find savages? Where aren't there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages? -- Jules Verne
Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously. -- Zachary Cole Smith
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. -- Hervey Allen
The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages. -- Brendan Sexton III
You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. -- Mark Pagel
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. -- Zebulon Pike
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. -- Edward Abbey
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves. -- Daniel Boone
In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns. -- Ricky Schroder
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. -- Bertrand Russell
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us. -- Samuel de Champlain
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
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession. -- William H. Wharton
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. -- Malcolm X
It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. -- Helena Bonham Carter
When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages. It's really a fascinating character study in the exploration of the human psyche. -- Laurie Holden
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness? -- Deborah Sampson
Are we savages or what? -- William Golding
Ants and savages put strangers to death. -- Bertrand Russell
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? -- William Golding
Alone we are savages, together we are civilization -- Ashok K. Banker
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages." -- Hervey Allen
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. -- Ann Coulter
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The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages -- Alfred Russel Wallace
The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages. -- Brendan Sexton III
...the most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages... -- Theodore Roosevelt
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. -- E. M. Forster
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. -- Thomas Huxley
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. -- Thomas Huxley
If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. -- Melina Marchetta
This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages -- James G. Frazer
The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. -- Jewel
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. -- Ayn Rand
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. -- Eric Hoffer
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. -- Samuel Johnson
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. -- Pamela Geller
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages. -- Sharon Olds
It was great to see the owls," I said.She smiled."Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful. -- David Almond
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. -- Tennessee Williams
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -- Mark Twain
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense. -- Ambrose Bierce
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government. -- Benjamin Rush
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn. -- John Dewey
If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are. -- Thomas Jefferson
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable. -- Ambrose Bierce
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. -- Oscar Wilde
How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world. -- Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government. -- Baron de Montesquieu
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions. -- Eva Hoffman
The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality. -- Bertrand Russell
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell. -- Edward Gibbon
...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul. -- Herman Melville
You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages. -- Mike Tyson
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again. -- Will Durant
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to himâ??bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, orâ?¦ â?¦or tap him on the shoulder. -- Dave Barry
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
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered. -- Ambrose Bierce

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