Art Quote by Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior…

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

— Edward Gibbon

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger…

— Charlie Pierce

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

— Amelia Earhart

“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater…

— Kedar Joshi

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet…

— John Buchan

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line…

— Edward Bellamy

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for…

— J. William Fulbright

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile…

— Winston Churchill

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical…

— Augustus William Hare