Savage Nature Quotes

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

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

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

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings.

Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.