"Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt." — H. Rider Haggard
"Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt."
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H. Rider Haggard
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37 Quotes by H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard has 37 quotes on this site.
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one…
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Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You…
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
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Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having…
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How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
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Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to…
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Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured…
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Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
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Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself…
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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of…
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The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always…
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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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