Top 30 Savagery Quotes to Ponder (SAVAGE)

Top 10 Most Famous Savagery Quotes

“Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.”
Carl von Clausewitz

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. ― George R.R. Martin — 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. ― **George R.R. Martin**

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. - Sathya Sai Baba — Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. – Sathya Sai Baba

“Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.”
Dennis Lehane

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. - Steven James — The true **nature** of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. – Steven James

The human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true – that savagery begets only savagery.”
Andrei Sakharov

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. - Alfred North Whitehead — Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. – Alfred North Whitehead

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. - Jean Dubuffet — Personally, I **believe** very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, **passion**, mood, violence, madness. – Jean Dubuffet

“Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.”
Nikola Tesla

4 Civilisation vs Savagery quotes

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! ― Robert E. Howard

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. - Octavia Butler — Civilization is the way one’s own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. – Octavia Butler

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

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad. - Pamela Geller — In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad. – Pamela Geller

5 Savagery Quotes About War and Violence

“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
Theodore Roosevelt

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier. - Georgia O'Keeffe — War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness – if he had it he wouldn’t be a good soldier. – Georgia O’Keeffe

“It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.”
Kristin Cashore

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace. ― Mango Wodzak — Violence is weakness. True **strength** comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace. ― Mango Wodzak

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. - Jeff Cooper — 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. – Jeff Cooper

11 Savagery Quotes that Will Make You Think

“Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.”
Karl Rove

Laws are made not to be broken. They are made to curb our savagery. ― Toba Beta

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. - Annie Lennox — Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of **empathy**, for lack of **compassion**. – Annie Lennox

How little it takes to bring out the savage lurking in each of us. ― Marty Rubin

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. - Robert Green Ingersoll — No system of religion should go in **partnership** with barbarism. Neither should any **Christian** feel it his **duty** to defend the savagery of the past. – **Robert Green Ingersoll**

A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in. - Agnes Moorehead — A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in. – Agnes Moorehead

“In the midst of nature’s savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.”
Andy Miller