Famous quotes containing the word savage:
“If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infants reasoning to the grown mans passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)
“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they dont fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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