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Savage Quotes

May I point out that I have gotten a chance to examine your counterparts closely. They are brutal, savage, uncivilized and illogical. They are in every way examples of Homo sapiens, the very flower of humanity.

– Mr. Spock

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Mirror, Mirror’.

We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.

– Goodluck Jonathan

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

– G. Stanley Hall

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

– Henry David Thoreau

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation’s dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

– George Jackson

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long – then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

– H. P. Lovecraft

What I’ve discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can’t really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

– Ian Mcewan

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

– Ida B. Wells

Every savage can dance.

– Jane Austen

People either think I’m this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who’s lucked out or they think I’m a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who’s spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It’s flattering, but I’ve not got that much of a gameplan.

– Irvine Welsh

Yeah, we’re sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

– Bruce McCulloch

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

– Arthur Smith

‘Elizabethtown’ was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It’s not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in ‘Elizabethtown.’ It wasn’t, like, a savage blow.

– Cameron Crowe

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

– Adam McKay

The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot.

– Cesare Beccaria

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

– Bertrand Russell

When I’m on stage the savage in me is released. It’s like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

– Angus Young

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

– Alain Badiou

People say, ‘Why don’t you just paint with paintbrushes?’ I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It’s very tribal in a way – savage!

– Meredith Ostrom

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

– Douglas MacArthur

For better or for worse, in ‘The Last Savage,’ I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

– Gian Carlo Menotti

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

– Diane Ackerman

I’m from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you’d get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

– David Mitchell

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

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I’ve gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

– Paul McCartney

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

– Davy Crockett

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon… these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren’t that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

– Marc Guggenheim

I’m doing a couple books at Dynamite. I’m writing Doc Savage over there.

– Chris Roberson

I like to think I’m some savage realist.

– Nick Frost

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

– Nelson A. Miles

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