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“They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.” William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“Savages! where are there not any? Besides, are they worse than others, these whom you call savages?” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.” Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
“In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“In the Second World War every bond between man and man was to perish. Crimes were committed by the Germans under the Hitlerite domination to which they allowed themselves to be subjected which find no equal in scale and wickedness with any that...” The Second World War
“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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