Barbarity Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us… — George VI
We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in… — Thomas Merton
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery… — John Ruskin
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image… — Brigitte Bardot
Sooner barbarity than boredom. — Theophile Gautier
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimesâ€”a justifier of the most appalling barbarityâ€¦a… — Frederick Douglass
In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and… — Harry J. Anslinger
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. — Jules Michelet
It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except… — Ernest Howard Crosby
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search… — Frederick Douglass
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old… — Bela Bartok
A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be… — Mike Farrell
Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians? — Adolf Hitler
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. — Pierre Schaeffer
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march… — Mahmoud Darwish
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that… — John Dryden
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they… — Ellen Key

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