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“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

“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“There is a savagery in all of us,”

— Jane Johnson

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

— Jared Diamond

“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

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t…

— Jules Verne

“We are all savages”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

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

— Ross Laidlaw

“Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.”

— Noah Gordon