Savage Quotes

• The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.

  

  Jacques Roumain
  • Taken
  • Dance
  • Waiting

• When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Justice

• We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • Up
  • God
  • Soul

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

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Sweet
  • Savage

• I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of the Atlanta scene. But Philly, too.

  

  Lil Uzi Vert
  • Music
  • Savage

• R. A. Fisher, J. Neyman, R. von Mises, W. Feller, and L. J. Savage denied vehemently that probability theory is an extension of logic, and accused Laplace and Jeffreys of committing metaphysical nonsense for thinking that it is.

  

  Logic
  • Thinking
  • Logic
  • Savage

• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Progress

• 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
  • Men
  • Black
  • Savage

• Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016

  

  Dan Savage
  • America
  • Savage
  • November

• Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Savage

• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Savage
  • Anthropology
  • Mother-In-Law

• It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.

  

  Leo Howard
  • Great
  • Country
  • Experience

• I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

  

  August Strindberg
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Immense

• How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Savage
  • Manners
  • Refined

• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Proud

• 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
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Week

• Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

  

  Alan Moore
  • May
  • Reality
  • Savage

• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Morning
  • Indian
  • Tribes

• The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. And in a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Christmas

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Savage
  • Conversion
  • Cristianity

• Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Remember
  • Alone
  • Hair

• Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

  

  David Ansen
  • Play
  • Passion
  • Savages

• Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Violence
  • Savage

• Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Age
  • Father
  • Savage

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