“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”

“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”

“The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic illusion. And the more he experienced the everyday life of the peasant, the more he denounced them as savage and barbaric.”

“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.”

“Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it." Peregrine's tone was distinctly ironic.”

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”