Barbarism Quote by Johan Huizinga

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

— Louis St. Laurent

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

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

— Lester R. Brown

For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of…

— Peter Kingsley

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what…

— Primo Levi

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other…

— Clifford D. Simak

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots…

— Charles Lindbergh

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

— Will Durant

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

“No successes we might have are guaranteed to last as long as industrial civilization stands. Conversely, most of our losses are effectively permanent. Extinct…

— Aric McBay