Savages Quotes - Page 16

• There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Passion, Men, Lust

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1531, e-artnow

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• It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Heart, Men

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Remember, Heard

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.57, 谷月社

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• Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Pain, Artist

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Tears, Sadism

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• Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Men, Pity

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• There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

  Chief Seattle

  Spring, Men, White Man

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, People, Independence

  John Stuart Mill (1861). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.108

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• Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

  Karl Marx

  Men, People, Want

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.738, OUP Oxford

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• 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.

  Elihu Root

  War, Lying, Men

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  James G. Frazer

  Family, Mother, Men

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

  Don Cheadle

  Men, Play, Black

  "Actor Don Cheadle". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. February 21, 2012.

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• Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

  Nelly

  Average, Politics

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• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Progress

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• 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

  Fighting, Iraq, Evil

  Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice (2012). “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Self, Pieces

  "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

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• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Baby, Father

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• Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, Eye, Sick

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

  Jonathan Swift

  Elephants, Maps, Want

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

  Camille Paglia

  Civilization, Fragility, Constant

  Camille Paglia (2017). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.261, Vintage

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• 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, People, Arms

  Samuel de Champlain (1907). “Voyages of Samuel de Champlain 1604-1618: With a Map and Two Plans”

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• The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

  Horace

  Horse, Eagles, Brave

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• Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.

  Eric Hoffer

  Laughter, Animal, Quality

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• Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Lying, Passion, Differences

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