Barbarity Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sooner barbarity than boredom.
— Theophile Gautier
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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a…
— Frederick Douglass
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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
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Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
— Jules Michelet
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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
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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
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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
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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
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His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old…
— Bela Bartok
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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
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Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?
— Adolf Hitler
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Barbarity Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Barbarity Quotes as follows: