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If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through… — George Papandreou
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar… — Elihu Root
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism — Walter Benjamin
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. — Graham Joyce
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in… — Pearl S. Buck
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism… — Eric Hoffer
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind, — Robert E. Howard
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our… — Winston Churchill
Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever… — Winston Churchill
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. — Denis Diderot
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. — Amelia Earhart
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force. — Sheikh Hasina
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. — Thomas Mann
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable… — Adam Smith
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. — Thomas Sowell
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of… — Simone Weil
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. — Oscar Wilde
And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even… — Winston Churchill
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges

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