Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia 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
We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us? — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of… — Robert Anton Wilson 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
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
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
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
It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“The philosophical arguments in favor of man’s ability to resist the slide into barbarism sound noble and rational in a classroom or… — Frederick Downs Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant 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
“Why do we fear and hate a possible reversion to barbarism? Because it would make people unhappier than they are? Oh no!… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on… — Clifford D. Simak 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
“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
“We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.” — Sigmund Freud 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
One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution… — Mohammad Marandi 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
In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image