Nature Quote by Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

— Robert E. Howard

“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

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

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Georges Clemenceau

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

— Mason Cooley

“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.”

— Walter Benjamin

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

“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