Civilised Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to…

— James G. Frazer

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

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

— Samuel Johnson

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own…

— Stanley Kubrick

It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

— Wendell Berry

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin.…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Tennessee Williams

At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is why Rousseau…

— Bruno Dumont