Savagery Quotes
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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
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
— William Shakespeare
The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances.
— S. Bradley Stoner
Books were links that spanned such missing human bonds or even times of savagery and its resulting ages of ignorance.
— Terry Goodkind
the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain.
— Martin Amis
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
— Ariana Franklin
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
— George R R Martin
The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery.
— Steven Pinker
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
— Steven James
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
Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.
— Bryant McGill
Something deep in the human psyche has always seemed to yearn for ever more enhanced levels of savagery.
— Robert Dunbar
There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.
— Courtney Milan
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
— Cullen Hightower
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
— Julie Burchill
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
— Robert E. Howard
We are compelled to choose," he sometimes complained, "between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America.
— Pearl S. Buck
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
— George Bernard Shaw
Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.
— H. Rider Haggard
They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.
— William Golding
Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?
— Christopher Brookmyre
() Teeth clenched, she heard herself snarl out words in a voice feral in its savagery (...)
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
No history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leads from the slingshot to the megaton bomb.
— Theodore Adorno
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
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.
— Dean Koontz
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
— Jean Dubuffet
Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!
— Isabella L. Bird
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
— Annie Lennox
At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
— Alfred North Whitehead
They don't call me savage writer for nothing.
— Khali Raymond
[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.
— Gene Doucette
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.
— Julien Offray De La Mettrie
I've made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery.
— Jeff Zentner
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.
— Gelett Burgess
My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.
— Bryant McGill
They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.
— Joe Reyes
Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.
— Sathya Sai Baba
The ancient savagery that men call motherhood, who mistake its tenderness for weakness.
— Diana Gabaldon
Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.
— Jeremy Clarkson
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
— Don Winslow
There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.
— Bryant McGill