Civilization Quote by Cullen Hightower

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

— Anonymous

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

— Robert E. Howard

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

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

— Benjamin Franklin

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

— Tennessee Williams

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our…

— Agnes Repplier

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

— Robert E. Howard

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

— Carl von Clausewitz

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is…

— Flora Lewis

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson