The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.” — Bruce Brander Copy Share Image
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
“the modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not” — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“Barbarism? Hah! When we kills people we do it there and then, lookin' 'em in the eye, and we'd be happy to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines… — John Broadbent Copy Share Image
“the modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not solely by… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“This catastrophe brings to mind the Korean Air Lines plane shot down in 1983 by a Soviet military fighter, killing 269. President… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice… We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim… — Barack Obama 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
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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