Age Quote by Mary Ritter Beard

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that…

— Tom Stoppard

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave…

— Ann Widdecombe

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

— Alain Finkielkraut

... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the…

— Catharine Beecher

“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

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

— Robert Graves

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

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

— Georges Clemenceau

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is…

— Walter Benjamin