Barbarism Quotes

Communism means barbarism

— James Russell Lowell

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

— Denis Diderot

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

— Denis Diderot

War is at its best barbarism.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

War is at best barbarism.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.”

— Terry Nardin

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

— George Santayana

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

— Mason Cooley

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

— Anonymous

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

— Karl Friedrich Schinkel

“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

— Neil Gaiman

“Men of action must be led by men of virtue, else there is no honor, merely chaos and barbarism.”

— Curtis Craddock

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political…

— James Bovard

Protecting life is a value that matters. Whether it is stopping partial birth abortion which I think is a barbarism. Or whether…

— Ted Cruz

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“How you’ve both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district.” Barbarism? That’s ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare…

— Suzanne Collins

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

— Edmond de Goncourt

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

“Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future…

— Theodore Monod

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

— Anatole France

If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This…

— Thomas Jefferson

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and…

— Edward Gibbon

We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,…

— Linus Pauling

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being…

— L. Ron Hubbard

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that…

— George Papandreou

“It was a war of reason against barbarism, supposedly, with the issues at stake on such a high plane that most of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against…

— Alexander Berkman

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is…

— Theodor Adorno

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe…

— Primo Levi

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a…

— George Bernard Shaw

This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational…

— Doris Lessing

“Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos! This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three…

— Christina Engela

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

— Michel de Montaigne