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There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.… — Julian Barnes
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism — Georg C. Lichtenberg
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This… — Dinesh D'Souza
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. — Herbert Spencer
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by… — C.S. Friedman
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride… — Nikola Tesla
Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners? — Suzanne Collins
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. — Neil Gaiman
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people… — Neil Gaiman
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as… — Catherynne M. Valente
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic) — Immanuel Kant
Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed… — John T. Flynn
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method,… — Linus Pauling
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our… — Charlie Pierce
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism. — Ori Gersht
The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric… — Yahya Jammeh
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence… — Leon Bourgeois
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. — John O'Hara
I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as… — Winthrop Rockefeller
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence… — George Pierce Baker
War is at its best barbarism. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Communism means barbarism — James Russell Lowell

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