Barbarism Quote by Neil Gaiman

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

— Will Durant

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

— Edmond de Goncourt

“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

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being…

— Alva Myrdal

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

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

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard