Savages Quotes

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin

Call, Manners, Ours

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

Goal, Living, Until

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

Great, Men, Philosophy

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
Ambrose Bierce

Financial, Beyond, Tribe

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

Real, Again, Desire

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
Edward Abbey

Enough, Dangerous, Weren

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

Men, General, Civilized

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

Before, Easy, Kids

The savages don't have atom bombs.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Death, Daily, Country

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike

Society, Compared, Ensemble

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

Movies, Trying, Culture

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

Men, Strong, Passion

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

Enemy, Evil, Why

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Hervey Allen

Generation, Fresh, Invasion

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
Shirley Jackson

Life, Children, Among

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

Character, Human, Others

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

Government, Granted, Taken

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

Men, Against, Hold

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