Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to…

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent…

— Walter Lippmann

“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western Christian civilisation':…

— Neal Ascherson

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice… We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but…

— Michel de Montaigne

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can…

— Herman Melville

“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what…

— Hilaire Belloc

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless…

— Rudyard Kipling

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