“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.” — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“It was a war of reason against barbarism, supposedly, with the issues at stake on such a high plane that most of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
“He who would be free,’ says a fine thinker, ‘must not conform.’ And authority, by bribing people to conform, produces a very… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Protecting life is a value that matters. Whether it is stopping partial birth abortion which I think is a barbarism. Or whether… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“How you’ve both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district.” Barbarism? That’s ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future… — Theodore Monod Copy Share Image
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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