Anger Quote by Grant Allen

“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it."…

— Mary Jo Putney

“When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

— Jared Diamond

“To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.”

— Isaiah Berlin

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

“Far from your home, you used to taste the pleasure of being mad without being alienated, of being an imbecile without renouncing your intelligence,…

— Edouard Levé

“Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make? Man is endowed with…

— Anton Chekhov

“So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown