Barbarians Quote by Karl Marx

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

— Leonard Woolf

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

— Robert E. Howard

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

— C.P. Cavafy

“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

Culture sets apart man from barbarian, but not in all regards.

— Mariana Fulger

“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

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

— Mark Twain

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb…

— Simon Conway Morris

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

— Anonymous

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

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

— Mary Beard