Barbarism Quote by Simone Weil

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

“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

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

— Mary Beard

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

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

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

— Catherine the Great

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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