Barbarians Quote by Anonymous

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

— Robert E. Howard

“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

— Robert E. Howard

My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole.

— Andy Hurley

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

— Anonymous

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

— Wendell Berry

“Civilization is refinement of spirit, respect of one's neighbor, tolerance of foreign opinion, courtesy of manner.”

— Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

— Liu Xiaobo

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

— Mark Twain

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession…

— Sigmund Freud

"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice,…

— Luther Standing Bear