Savagery Quotes

Savagery Quote of the day

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

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.

The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.

They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.