Barbarism Quote by Anatole France

“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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced…

— C.S. Friedman

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play…

— Simone Weil

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

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

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

— Will Durant

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

— Jane Addams

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their…

— Richard M. Weaver