Age Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play…

— Simone Weil

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages…

— Ernest Howard Crosby

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

Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid…

— Walter Savage Landor

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens,…

— Savitri Devi

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place…

— William Morris

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

— Mary Beard

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

— Anonymous

“We sometimes hear of the cruelties of the Inquisition, of the barbarity of the Irish, of the tyranny of priestcraft; but such cruelties, barbarities,…

— Mary Frances Cusack

“Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture.”

— Seth D