“Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage.”
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/boxing/fury.html
On himself
“The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.”
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American author and essayist 1927–1989Related quotes
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Davy Crockett (1786–1836) American politician
Source: Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836), Ch. 2
Context: In peace or in war I have stood by thy side —
My country, for thee I have lived, would have died!
But I am cast off, my career now is run,
And I wander abroad like the prodigal son —
Where the wild savage roves, and the broad prairies spread,
The fallen — despised — will again go ahead.
Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 245.
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author
Interview with Judy Woodruff https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=kSjrLYT1hr8 (11 September 2001), CNN <br class="br">2000s <br class="br">Context: Ending your own life is not something the average person does. Everybody's assuming these are Islamic terrorists. Well, if so they've defiled their own religion. Islam does not permit suicide. It says you go to hell if you do something like this... We saw people in Northern Ireland, Catholics acting like savages and Protestants acting like savages... We have people who call themselves Muslims acting like savages. It's not because of their religion, it's because they're fools.
“Eyes exist in the savage state.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
L'œil existe à l'état sauvage.
Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, (1926) Andre Breton
“And waste their music on the savage race.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
Satire V, l. 228.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“All savageness is a sign of weakness.”
Omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life): cap. 3, line 4
Alternate translation: All cruelty springs from weakness. (translator unknown)
As quoted in Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners (1864), Harper & brothers, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, p. 174 (in the essay The Sympathetic Temperment).
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