Barbarism Quote by Walter Benjamin

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

— Walter Benjamin

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

— Thomas Cahill

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

“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

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

— Walter Benjamin

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

— Robert M. T. Hunter

The New Testament is not a historical document.

— Reza Aslan

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

— Dorothy West