Quotes by British Empire Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism. Robert A. Williams, Jr. british-empire western purpose The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. Joseph Jacobs empire fair british-empire fate England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel. George A. Moore empire british-empire british england