Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread,… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
These are barbaric people [at ISIS]. These are people that - you know, I used to study medieval times, and you know,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos! This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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