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“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by…

— John Stuart Mill

“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”

— Georges Clemenceau

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

— Michel de Montaigne

“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.”

— Walter Benjamin

“Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.”

— T.S. Eliot

“American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.”

— Albert Jay Nock

“What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.”

— Péter Nádas

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

— Georges Clemenceau

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

— Slavoj Žižek

“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”

— Kiran Nagarkar