Accounts Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Robert E. Howard

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

— Dean Koontz

It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians came and…

— Ilkin Santak

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

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

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

— Mariana Fulger

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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

— Leonard Woolf

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Anonymous

“Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition can be…

— Tzvetan Todorov

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who…

— Karl Marx