“The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice… We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“Barbarism? Hah! When we kills people we do it there and then, lookin' 'em in the eye, and we'd be happy to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines… — John Broadbent Copy Share Image
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“the modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not solely by… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more… — Edouard Daladier Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
“This catastrophe brings to mind the Korean Air Lines plane shot down in 1983 by a Soviet military fighter, killing 269. President… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
