Barbarism Quotes
100 quotes by 90 authors
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
— Georges Clemenceau
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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
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If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real…
— Nelson DeMille
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent…
— J. William Fulbright
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You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of…
— John Buchan
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War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
— Tony Blair
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
— Anatole France
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred de Vigny
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With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only…
— Albert Einstein
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
— Thucydides
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each…
— Edouard Daladier
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Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle,…
— Thomas Young
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Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one…
— Albert Schweitzer
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First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
— Ron Silver
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