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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.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

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.