Sooner barbarity than boredom.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling…

— Frederick Douglass

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages…

— Ernest Howard Crosby

“The Damned Axe by Stewart Stafford The axe decapitates a head, Society's ills get quickly shed, Can we trust what we don't see? The…

— Stewart Stafford

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

— Jules Michelet

In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity,…

— Harry J. Anslinger

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the…

— Brigitte Bardot

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious barbarities –…

— Jeffrey Tayler

One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to…

— Mary Beard

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

— Michel de Montaigne

“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem…

— Mary Beard

“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even…

— Rose Macaulay

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment,…

— David Bowie