America Quote by Georges Clemenceau

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

— Georges Clemenceau

“American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.”

— Albert Jay Nock

“No nation has its own culture, only its own barbarism.”

— Kustaa Vilkuna

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

— Oscar Wilde

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

— John O'Hara

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by…

— John Stuart Mill

“We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.”

— Sigmund Freud

“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.”

— Walter Benjamin

“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.”

— George Monbiot

“America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.”

— Walter A. McDougall

“America is a country in which the velocity of history is especially great, in which each succeeding decade wipes it's immediate predecessor out, a…

— George Bailey