Barbarism Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barbarism Civilization Discontent
To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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