Civilization Quote by Mark Twain

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is…

— Mark Twain

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

— Samuel Johnson

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

— Robert E. Howard

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but…

— Carl von Clausewitz

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

— H. Rider Haggard

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

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

— Tennessee Williams

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

— Cullen Hightower