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Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. — H. Rider Haggard
Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. — Sathya Sai Baba
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in… — Carl von Clausewitz
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured… — Simon Barnes
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could not… — Bryan Fischer
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been… — George Bernard Shaw
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is… — Theodore Roosevelt
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare… — Karl Rove
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. — Will Self
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. — Alfred North Whitehead
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of… — Arundhati Roy
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… — Tom Stoppard
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver
Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused… — Frank Portman
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… — Jacqueline Carey
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… — Thomas Sowell
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… — Anne Rice
Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in… — Willa Cather
I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list.… — Sue Grafton
I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their… — Dean Koontz
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard
It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And… — Kristin Cashore
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is… — Tim O'Brien

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