“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Despair is the barbarism of loneliness. Losing nearly all hope, is barbaric.” — Klaudio Marashi Copy Share Image
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
“He who would be free,’ says a fine thinker, ‘must not conform.’ And authority, by bribing people to conform, produces a very… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is up to the school more than anything else to work against barbarism. ... By barbarism, I do not mean the Beatles.” — Anonymous 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
I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. — Rosa Luxemburg 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
I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring… — William Carey Copy Share Image
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness. — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.” — Alain Finkielkraut Copy Share Image
Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step. — Alain Finkielkraut Copy Share Image
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