Able Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

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

— Samuel Johnson

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

— Benjamin Rush

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must…

— Karl Marx

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

“Let us conclude that savage man, wandering about in the forests, without industry, without speech, without any fixed residence, an equal stranger to war…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made…

— Jean Itard

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are…

— Joseph P. Bradley

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities,…

— Democritus