Barbarism Quote by Antoine Rivarol

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

— Mason Cooley

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or…

— Blaise Pascal

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place…

— William Morris

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

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

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

— James Sheridan Knowles

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

“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

I'm curious about the extremes of the world

— Matt Prior

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being…

— Alva Myrdal