Civilisation Quote by H. Rider Haggard

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

— H. Rider Haggard

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash…

— Arundhati Roy

“I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction”

— Mark Twain

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense.…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization…

— C. S. Lewis

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply…

— Jeff Cooper

It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery.…

— Kristin Cashore

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.

— Rashad Evans

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

— Don Winslow

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a…

— L. Ron Hubbard