Barbarism Quote by Ron Silver

“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

“American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.”

— Albert Jay Nock

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

— Will Durant

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

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

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— 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

I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“This emphasis calls into question some of the most ingrained insights into the history of the modern world—for example, conceptualizing the nineteenth century, as…

— Sven Beckert

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