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The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.