There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to…

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

— Anonymous

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

— Henry Adams

I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond…

— Henry Adams

“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is possible only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

— Suzanne Collins

“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

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