Quotes About Savagery And Civilization

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

Cullen Hightower

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Og Mandino

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

Octavia E. Butler

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

Charles Dickens

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

Ariana Franklin

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

Robert E. Howard

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

Isabella L. Bird

#14. Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

H. Rider Haggard

#15. If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.

Jim Trelease

#16. 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

#17. Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

Donald Trump

#18. Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.

Tom Giaquinto

#19. The resistance, though it comes in many forms, begins with the mistaken belief that I am somehow separate from change, and that I can control it, rather than to align myself with change as it makes itself apparent, and ride it.

Sharon Weil

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. We all make choices. We all have to live with them.

James Patterson

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

Bryant McGill

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

Toba Beta