Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
“We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread,… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“On problems finding female ancestors,of any background, remember "I cannot put gas in my car without a note from my husband. The… — Christina Kassabian Schaefer Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
