Top 34 Quotes About Savagery Vs Civilization
#1. Because a person wants to know that there's a person in the world who would do something if they could." She takes a ragged breath. "Even if they can't.
Paul Acampora
#2. Poets write beautiful words to describe
savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.
Toba Beta
#3. Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
Antonio Porchia
#4. One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
Cullen Hightower
#5. There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.
Bryant McGill
#6. We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.
Muhammad Yunus
#7. Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.
Matt Busby
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Just remember, family isn't perfect. It's just perfectly ours.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.
Marion Bartoli
#18. Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!
Isabella L. Bird
#19. The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
Robert E. Howard
#20. The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
Ariana Franklin
#21. The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.
Barry Lopez
#22. There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization.
Charles Dickens
#23. Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
Octavia E. Butler
#24. The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.
Naomi Watts
#25. 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
#26. President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person ... So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It's all the same.
Jay Leno
#27. We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
Pat Mastelotto
#28. It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
Friedrich Engels
#29. One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
Aldous Huxley
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I always blend my mascaras, since some are better at lengthening and others are better at thickening.
Kristinia DeBarge
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