Barbarism Quotes

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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
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
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
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
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. — Tony Blair
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny
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
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. — Thucydides
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
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
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
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
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
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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