Writing Quote by Jared Diamond

“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.”

— Ross Laidlaw

“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“Now, nothing annoys an angry savage or an uneducated person so much as the perfect coolness of a civilized and cultivated man when he…

— Grant Allen

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

— Samuel Johnson

“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love…

— Karen Blixen

“I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today…

— Alma Hogan Snell

“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem…

— Mary Beard

“Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon the State.”

— Adam Hochschild

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“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