Atheism Quote by Sam Harris

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other…

— Clifford D. Simak

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

— Georges Clemenceau

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons,…

— Amadeo Bordiga

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“For all the successes of Western civilization, the world paid a dear price in terms of the most crucial component of existence - the…

— Eben Alexander

“Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him.”

— Theodore Monod

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

“Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.”

— Bruce Brander

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

— Walter Benjamin