Barbarism Quote by Will Durant

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

— Neil Gaiman

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“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 twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

— Ron Silver

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

— Anatole France

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

— Robert Graves