Barbarism Quote by Graham Joyce

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

— Mary Beard

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

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 recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.

— George Carlin

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

— Amelia Earhart

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

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

“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

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

— Denis Diderot

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the…

— Peter Sloterdijk