Accustomed Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accustomed Barbarity
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness. — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
“The difference between a civilized man and a barbarous fiend—a madman, say - Lies, perhaps, Merely in a thin veneer of willed self-restraint.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages… — Ernest Howard Crosby Copy Share Image
“Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture.” — Seth D Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
