Walter Kirn

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.

American Novelist

Noam Chomsky

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.

American Activist

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

French Lawyer

Thomas A. Edison

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

American Inventor

Jamie Wyeth

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

American Artist

William James

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

American Philosopher

Victor Hugo

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

French Author

George Santayana

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Spanish Philosopher

Hervey Allen

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

American Author

Jane Austen

British Writer

Use 'savage' to emphasize the strength and fierceness of a physical act or creature.

Physical Intensity

'Savage' is often used metaphorically to describe a person or action that is extremely intense or passionate.

Metaphorically Fierce

Avoid using 'savage' to describe people or cultures, as it can be offensive and outdated.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Savage' can carry historical baggage, implying a lack of civilization according to colonial perspectives.

Historically Loaded

When calling someone a 'savage', it suggests they are cruel or lack humanity.

Negative Connotation

Use 'savage' as an intensifier to describe critique, expressing it is extremely tough or uncompromising.

Critique Intensifier

'Savage' as a verb usually implies a loss of control and intense violence.

Violent Action

In non-literal contexts, 'savage' signifies a ferocious verbal attack or criticism.

Figurative Use

 which was that, as a very young boy starting at age four, he had been savagely and repeatedly physically abused by his stepfather, and the abuse had gotten so bad that he had had to drop out of school in eighth grade, even though he was very smart, and he'd spent almost 20 years rebuilding his life.

Why domestic violence...

 They not only share things, they demand that things be meat, shelter, protection, all these things that were supposedly being traded to women for their sexual fidelity, it turns out, are shared widely among these societies. Now I'm not saying that our ancestors were noble savages, and I'm not saying

Are we sexual omnivores?...

 Because the sunshine kid was bright, with a warm personality, And inside he burned savagely Hurt by the words and curses of the shadowy folk who spoke holes in his soul and left cavities, And as his heart hardened, his spark darkened, Every time they called him names it cooled his flames,

Harry Baker: A love poem...

 is to the other a cause of mourning. Whatever is unfortunate in war, is severely so indeed, and whatever, on the contrary, is called good fortune, is a savage and a cruel good fortune, an ungenerous happiness deriving its existence from another's woe. But everyone knows that the movement

Steven Pinker and...

 and will often raid their neighbors out of fear of being raided first. Now, one way of dealing with this problem is by deterrence. You don't strike first, but you have a publicly announced policy that you will retaliate savagely if you are invaded.

The surprising decline...

 these organisms have evolved to survive not only the heat and the acid but levels of other chemicals that would kill most life if life can survive in Yellowstone why not on Venus scientists believe the surface itself is too savage

Life on Venus PIPE National...

 we are the savage flow program that was funded by USAID us eight and we did a few things to try to improve these conditions with accidental our children curative care this is some of the

The dire state of...

 elephants know these drinking holes are dangerous but they have no choice the dramas that play out here are a savage reminder of how important water is for all life on these pens

The Cutest Elephant...

 After a savage seafaring skirmish and eight long days of being battered by waves, Väinämöinen— a powerful bard and sage as old as the world itself—

The myth of the Sampo—...

 dangerous but they have no choice the dramas that play out here are a savage reminder of how important water is for all life on these Plains