Nationalism Quote by William Golding

We're not savages. We're English.

— William Golding

We are a nation of savages.

— Norah Vincent

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

We're very girly, but at the same time, we're very savage too.

— Rose

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

— Tennessee Williams

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that…

— D. H. Lawrence

The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent

— Jack Straw

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

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

— Terry Gilliam

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Samuel Johnson