Quotes About Civilization And Savagery

#1. There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.

Terry Goodkind

#2. It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

Jacqueline Carey

#3. If you ever need to poison someone, do it with a bacon sandwich

Y.S. Lee

#4. Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

Edmund Morris

#5. The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

L. Ron Hubbard

#6. No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent.
Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Anne Rice

#7. There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

James Henry Breasted

#8. I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.

Louis Chunovic

#9. P.S. What the hell. Why not sign off with the traditional American greeting? "Merry Christmas," Uncle Vasile. "Happy holidays to you."
P.P.S. Really
"counseling"!

Beth Fantaskey

#10. The Voiceless in rank and file are easy to manipulate.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#11. A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human equality, and for civilization instead of savagery.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

Katharine Graham

#13. Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

Octavia E. Butler

#14. There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization.

Charles Dickens

#15. The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

Ariana Franklin

#16. The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Robert E. Howard

#17. Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!

Isabella L. Bird

#18. Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

H. Rider Haggard

#19. A lot of people just love music, especially a lot of aspiring artists. They just want to jump in and start making music. They don't really take time to grow and appreciate the craft.

LeCrae

#20. The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Samuel Johnson

#22. The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Judith Martin

#23. The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

Mark Twain

#24. Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.

Herman Melville

#25. What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Thomas Sowell

#26. I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

Adam Ant

#27. There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

Bryant McGill

#28. One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

Cullen Hightower

#29. I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

John Turturro

#30. Poets write beautiful words to describe
savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

Toba Beta

#31. Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Price Pritchett