Age Quote by Alva Myrdal

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

“Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition can be…

— Tzvetan Todorov

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

— Robert Graves

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

— Thomas Sowell

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to…

— Walter Bagehot

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

— Will Durant

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

— Oscar Wilde

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

— Amelia Earhart

War is at best barbarism.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually…

— Ellen Key

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard