Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is…

“Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.”

— Alain Finkielkraut

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to…

— Guy Maddin

“The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.”

— Camille Paglia

Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50…

— W. Bruce Cameron

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go…

— Donald Johanson

“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong…

— Christopher Hitchens

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures…

— Johan Huizinga

“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure…

— Will Durant

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at…

— James Russell Lowell

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile…

— Winston Churchill

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical…

— Augustus William Hare

“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have…

— Iain Pears

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

— Robert Green Ingersoll