"Many other such substitutes for war will be……" — Friedrich Nietzsche

"Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence."

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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
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War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. — Tony Blair
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war… — Albert Einstein

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