Barbarism Quote by C. S. Lewis

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which…

— Alfred North Whitehead

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war…

— Rutger Bregman

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

— Robert E. Howard

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I…

— Ronald Wright

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people…

— George Will

If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than…

— Anatoly Kuznetsov

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain