If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.” — Gregory Benford 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
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.” — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel 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
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend… — Augustus William Hare 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
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
“On problems finding female ancestors,of any background, remember "I cannot put gas in my car without a note from my husband. The… — Christina Kassabian Schaefer Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“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
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
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
