Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
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.
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.
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.
Savage bears agree with one another.
And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
Only a more Savage Nation can survive.