“Are we savages or what?”

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”

“I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.”

“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.”

“Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.”

“what twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?”