Civilization And Savagery Quotes

There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization. — Charles Dickens

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Octavia E. Butler

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. — Ariana Franklin

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

Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization! — Isabella L. Bird

Poets write beautiful words to describe
savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays. — Toba Beta

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization. — Bryant McGill

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. — H. Rider Haggard

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

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