Barbarism Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play…

— Simone Weil

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

— Mary Beard

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

— Mercedes Lackey

“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

— Thomas Sowell

“No nation has its own culture, only its own barbarism.”

— Kustaa Vilkuna

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to…

— Mary Beard

We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages except our own.

— Ernest Howard Crosby