Quotes About Civilization Vs Savagery

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

Charles Dickens

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

H. Rider Haggard

#5. There exists no temple more beautiful and more calming than the nature itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Isabella L. Bird

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

Robert E. Howard

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

Ariana Franklin

#9. If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

Garik Israelian

#10. When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Lesley Manville

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

Octavia E. Butler

#12. I like to stay at home and sit on my ass.

Chelsea Handler

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

Cormac McCarthy

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

Toba Beta

#21. Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

David Rudisha

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

Cullen Hightower

#23. Three weeks ago one of my dreams came true. I finally got to see something I always wanted to witness live. I finally saw someone get hit by a car ... Nailed!

Dane Cook

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

Bryant McGill

#25. Africa's story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

Paul Kagame

#26. The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

P. J. O'Rourke

#27. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.

Edward Snowden

#28. I've got a crush on my backing singer.

Amy Winehouse

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Swami Vivekananda

#34. Our business is to be happy.

Dalai Lama