Quotes about Savage

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

- George Bernard Shaw

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

- Mark Twain

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

- Mark Twain

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

- Henry David Thoreau