Barbarism Quote by Thomas Sowell

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

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

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

— Amelia Earhart

I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.

— George Carlin

“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 age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being…

— Alva Myrdal

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to…

— Bertolt Brecht

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

— Will Durant

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

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

— Walter Benjamin