Barbarism Quote by Pearl S. Buck

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

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

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

— Walter Benjamin

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial…

— Antoine Rivarol

“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

“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

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

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

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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