The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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.
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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.
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.
Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Savage bears agree with one another.
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
Every savage can dance.