Savage

Famous quotes containing the word savage:

    Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    There was nothing but that savage ocean between us and Europe.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I have since written what no tide
    Shall ever wash away, what men
    Unborn shall read o’er ocean wide
    And find Ianthe’s name agen.
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)