"Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire……" — Winston Churchill

"Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism."

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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
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You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is… — John Buchan
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. — Tony Blair
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny

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