Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.” — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Men of action must be led by men of virtue, else there is no honor, merely chaos and barbarism.” — Curtis Craddock Copy Share Image
“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us? — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia 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
I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the… — Elihu Root 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
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
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
“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
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
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos! This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three… — Christina Engela 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
“Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness. — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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