Barbarism Quote by Jane Jacobs

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

“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

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

— Mason Cooley

(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for,…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

— Kathy Szeliga

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

— Ron Silver

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

— Walter Benjamin

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences…

— George Washington

Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the…

— Helen Prejean