Barbarians Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter

“To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.”

— Isaiah Berlin

“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

— Leonard Woolf

“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem…

— Mary Beard

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

— Anonymous

Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

— William Hazlitt

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

— Jared Diamond

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means…

— Nancy Pearcey

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction,

— Margrethe II of Denmark

“I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to…

— Virginia Woolf

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton