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Civilization Quotes by Robert E. Howard
- Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
- Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
- Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
- My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate…
- Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
- The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
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