Barbarity Quote by Joseph Addison

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and…

— Marquis de Sade

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America,…

— Frederick Douglass

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a…

— Joseph Addison

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at…

— Fouad Ajami

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

— Jules Michelet

In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity,…

— Harry J. Anslinger

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the…

— Brigitte Bardot

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious barbarities –…

— Jeffrey Tayler

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

— Mary Beard

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

— Michel de Montaigne

“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