Barbarism Quote by Theodore Monod

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

— Sigmund Freud

“Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.”

— Alain Finkielkraut

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

— Georges Clemenceau

“We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is hard work…

— Sam Harris

“Our age is enlightened... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians?”

— Friedrich von Schiller

“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

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and…

— Paul A. Baran

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

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

— Albert Jay Nock

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

— Bruce Brander

“The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana