"It is, of course, the first recourse of……" — Graham Joyce
"It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others."
More Barbarism Quotes
- America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval… — Georges Clemenceau
- Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the… — Nelson DeMille
- Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
- Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international… — J. William Fulbright
- You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is… — John Buchan
- 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
- The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny