Book Quote by Thomas Harris

“We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill…

— Thomas Harris

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

— Noah Gordon

“Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.”

— Ilona Andrews

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us seem very…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The most savage of human kind are the most advanced”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Even the poorest and most squalid life is an Aeschylean drama, if you think about the tragedy of the bodily functions, the whispering of…

— Guido Ceronetti

Savagery is our primal nature and in it we return via the brain's degenerative diseases.

— Mariana Fulger

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor…

— Samuel Richardson

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

“Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed…

— Winston Graham

“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young men prostrate…

— Jorge Luis Borges