“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more… — Edouard Daladier Copy Share Image
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only… — Clare Boothe Luce 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
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana 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
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has… — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich 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
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. — Graham Joyce 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
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
