Savage Quotes

… a beast

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

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

It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.

Civilization or death to all American savages!

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

War is the business of barbarians.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is why Rousseau propounded the need for contracts between the savage and society. The savage also shows that in order to understand the need for civilization and culture, mankind needs to see barbarism. One could not exist without the other.

I am a beast!

… a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men

The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

We’re [Native Americans] portrayed as either the noble savage or the ignoble savage. In most people’s minds, we only exist in the 19th century.

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

Flair was a guy who 90 percent of your match was called on the fly, while Savage was a guy who had 90 percent of it set in stone before the match began.

Everything changes from week to week in WWE, and that's what's cool about it. All it takes is one minute you're smiling and the next minute you can be a savage.

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

A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

Boxing is like the Wild West. There are no rules. It's horrible.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.