Civilization Quote by Robert E. Howard

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

— Anonymous

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

— Cullen Hightower

There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it

— Terry Goodkind

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one…

— Sting

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also…

— Walter Cronkite

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is…

— Flora Lewis

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

— Margaret Fuller

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

— Benjamin Franklin

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain

What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very beginnings of…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

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

— Tennessee Williams