America Quote by Matthew Arnold

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

— C.P. Cavafy

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

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast…

— Dinesh D'Souza

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 more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

— Gregory Maguire

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also…

— Harold Macmillan

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Anonymous

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Leonard Woolf

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman