Conditions Quote by Johan Huizinga

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

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

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and…

— Paul A. Baran

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

— Mary Beard

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