Barbarism Quote by Robert E. Howard Download Open image “Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,” — Robert E. Howard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barbarism Mankind Natural Nature Nature of man States
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“There was no life in the Abyss, save that which was incorporated in me," it tolled. "Nor was there light, nor motion, nor any… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.” — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.” — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Again the governor knelt, for part of his wisdom was the knowledge that a woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement. I've earned everything I've won, with… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
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