Aspiration Quote by Ori Gersht

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

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

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place…

— William Morris

“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 if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

— Slavoj Žižek

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

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it…

— Henry Rollins

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors…

— John Locke

The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught…

— Jack D. Forbes

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

— Alice Mattison

It's hard to see blessings in a violent culture

— Common