Barbarism Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

— 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

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

— Mary Beard

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

“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

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

— Anatole France

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

“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of…

— Robert E. Howard

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

— Robert Graves