Barbarism Quote by Christian Friedrich Hebbel

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play…

— Simone Weil

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.

— Geert Wilders

“Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition can be…

— Tzvetan Todorov

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

— Mary Beard

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

— Slavoj Žižek

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than…

— Michel de Montaigne

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

— Denis Diderot

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

— Johan Huizinga