Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere…

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

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and…

— Nikola Tesla

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

— Edward Gibbon

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger…

— Charlie Pierce

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

— Amelia Earhart

“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater…

— Kedar Joshi

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet…

— John Buchan

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line…

— Edward Bellamy

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for…

— J. William Fulbright

[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

“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