Best Barbarism Quotes
100 Barbarism quotes by 89 unique authors
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As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
— Tony Blair
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
— Carlos Fuentes
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Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
— Rosa Luxemburg
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By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany…
— Friedrich Engels
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The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized,…
— Alva Myrdal
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In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.
— Edward Gibbon
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African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence.…
— Laurence M. Keitt
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
— David Hare
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As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities…
— Isabella Beeton
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It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people…
— James Bovard
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Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And…
— Theodor Adorno
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A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation,…
— William Kunstler
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Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
— Unknown Author
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Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is…
— Alexander Berkman
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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
— William Kristol
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Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
— Neil Gaiman
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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the…
— Michel de Montaigne
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There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked…
— Dan Simmons
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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as…
— Walter Lippmann
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The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree…
— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
— George Santayana
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is…
— Primo Levi
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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