Barbarism Quote by Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

— Denis Diderot

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

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

— Anonymous

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place…

— William Morris

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

— Edmond de Goncourt

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

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

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

— Amelia Earhart

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

— Thomas Jefferson

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people…

— Kenneth Clark