Circumstances Quote by Robert E. Howard

“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of…

— Robert E. Howard

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

— Leonard Woolf

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

“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

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

— Mark Twain

Culture sets apart man from barbarian, but not in all regards.

— Mariana Fulger

“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

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

— Thomas Sowell