Top 163 Savages Quotes & Sayings

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Alone we are savages, together we are civilization

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

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

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in a way that desensitized us to the savages we'd become.

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

The savages don't have atom bombs.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

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.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.

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.

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.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

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.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.

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.

We're not savages. We're English.

When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.

Are we savages or what?

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

The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

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.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

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

Memphis breeds hustlers, I feel. It's just cutthroat living period, so to survive around vultures and savages like that, it prepares you for whatever profession you go in.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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.

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk.

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

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?

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

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.

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

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.