Savages Quotes

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.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

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

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.

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

The savages don't have atom bombs.

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.

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.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.