Uncivilized Quotes

“Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.”
― Alexandra Ripley, New Orleans Legacy

“We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he had seen her standing in the alley, wholesome and pink-cheeked, her voluptuous figure contained in a modest gown, he had wanted her. He had no idea why, when she was the embodiment of everything that annoyed him about Englishwomen.
It was obvious Miss Hathaway had a relentless certainty in her own ability to organize and manage everything around her. Cam’s usual reaction to that sort of female was to flee in the opposite direction. But as he had stared into her pretty blue eyes, and seen the tiny determined frown hitched between them, he had felt an unholy urge to snatch her up and carry her away somewhere and do something uncivilized. Barbaric, even.
Of course, uncivilized urges had always lurked a bit too close to his surface.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight

“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I had abandoned everything
frivolously
doing this that and nothing
until you broke through
with your perfume of promise
saying 'Give me your chaos'
undressing my soul
with your ferocious beauty
and tulip-soft skin
making me uncivilised
making me overcome myself
You drink the darkness
within darkness
and are not ruined by it
This intoxicating uncertainty
forces me to delay ‘forever’
—your body is now my home”
― Kamand Kojouri

“It is only other people’s ridiculous beliefs or customs that seem ridiculous to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I know many people will say, "What kind of God orders you to do everything you do? You are deceiving us. You are a primitive man, quite uncivilized." I know all these objections. I will answer them simply. I am man's firstborn, with God's culture and not an animal's.”
― Vaslav Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition

“Kill the fucking Nice Guy in you. Seriously, bury all relation you have to that guy. The Nice Guy is not a nice guy, he's not kind, respectful or honest. He's a chameleon. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing.”
― Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

“Regardless of how people divide people by color, social code, and category, the equality of one human being to the next (civilized or otherwise) is a tethered-rope of human emotions; most are born with them taut, some learn to twist them, and still others fight daily to keep theirs from unravelling.”
― Tracey Bond

“Countless organisms are either cut or killed every four or so weeks, just to make us look civilized, sane, and mature through the state of our yard.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Make still the mind, make savage the body.”
― Traver Boehm

“Be dangerous but not a danger.”
― Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

“Know that your deepest gifts grow in the garden of your wounds.”
― Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

“Know that love without strength leads to victimhood, and strength without love leads to tyranny.”
― Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

“Become independent of the opinion of the good conscious of the collective.”
― Traver Boehm

“Let others be safer for I walk among them.”
― Traver Boehm

“Love without strength leads to victimhood, and strength without love leads to tyranny.”
― Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

“One of the greatest challenges for civilized men is asking for what they want.”
― Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

“The feminine needs two things more than anything else in the world: trust and safety.”
― Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

“Bad behavior don't make us cool, it only exposes the fool we are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“We exist to end the suffering in men and to end the suffering that men cause.”
― Traver Boehm

“When you behold the increasing hate in the heart of humanity, you can't help but wonder what happened to love.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain