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  • The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.

    Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.7, e-artnow
  • The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.

    "The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm". Book by Maria Tatar, August 9, 2010.
  • Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

    Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Seed to Harvest: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster”, p.134, Open Road Media
  • Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.

    Science   Men   Choices  
  • Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

  • If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.

  • Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.

    Heart   Fire   Body  
  • I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

    Hate   Fall   Men  
    Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.140, Pan Macmillan
  • It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

    Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.390, Macmillan
  • Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.

    Dark   Order   Yesterday  
  • What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

    Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.7, Basic Books
  • It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

    Age   Comfort   Deserve  
    "Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology". www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.
  • We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

    Sleep   Animal   Men  
    H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics
  • The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

    Law   Civilization   Path  
  • Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them. Social movements must move outside of national boundaries and join with others across the globe to fight the savagery of neoliberal global politics and central to such a task is the work of intellectuals, artists, cultural workers, and others who can fashion new tools and social movements in the fight against the current anti-democratic threats being imposed all over the globe.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

    "A civilized discussion with Don Winslow, the author and co-screenwriter of 'Savages'". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. July 3, 2012.
  • Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

    Writing   Ideas   Two  
    Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.27, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

    Book   Errors   Sea  
    C. S. Lewis (2014). “Image and Imagination”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

    Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
  • Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

  • Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

    Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”
  • Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

    Animal   Evil   Violence  
  • No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

  • The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.

    Men   Law   Desire  
    "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.
  • It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.

    War   Distance   Cities  
  • Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

    Thinking   Years   Voice  
    Virginia Woolf (1989). “A Room of One's Own”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

    Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1694, Penguin
  • Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals.

    Thug   Order   Soldier  
    "AFA’s Fischer Outdoes Himself". www.rightwingwatch.org. May 25, 2010.
  • So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

    People   Justice   Damage  
    "The algebra of infinite justice" by Arundhati Roy, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.
  • Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

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