Massacre Quote by Carol Ryrie Brink

“There is a savagery in all of us,”

— Jane Johnson

“I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today…

— Alma Hogan Snell

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

“We are all savages”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage.”

— Frank Kermode

“What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.”

— Colson Whitehead

“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.”

— Grant Allen

“And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?”

— Michael Herr

“I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.”

— Herman Melville

“Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon the State.”

— Adam Hochschild

“And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.”

— Marcus Sakey