Barbarism Quote by John Buchan

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

— Dean Koontz

“Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.”

— Bruce Brander

“the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin”

— Karin Tansek

“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But…

— Kenneth Clark

“The veneer of civilization is extremely thin.”

— Charles Cook M.D

And the walls became the world all around.

— Maurice Sendak

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which…

— Aldous Huxley

“It was the old section of London, the part the Romans had encircled with a wall nearly two thousand years ago. The wall had…

— C.N. Crawford

“It might seem a little trite, all this trouble over a stupid wall. But you’ve got to understand, it was the wall that finally…

— Mark Russell

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

— Walter Benjamin