Inspirational Quote by Terry Pratchett

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice… We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.”

— Ilona Andrews

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“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

“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

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings…

— Pearl S. Buck

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

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 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

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