Barbarity Quote by Joseph Addison

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

— Walt Whitman

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

— Mary Beard

“Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name…

— John Stuart Mill

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves…

— Victor Hugo

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

— Voltaire

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than…

— Michel de Montaigne

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

— Richard Whately