Top 100 Quotes About Barbarism
#3. I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.
Marquis De Custine
#4. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.
Charles Sumner
#5. The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
Perry Brass
#6. If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
Clifford D. Simak
#7. America was aptly described by George Bernard Shaw, who said that it was 'the only country which had gone from barbarism to decadence without once passing through civilization.' Guy
Maya Angelou
#8. If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.
Johan Huizinga
#9. American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.
Albert Jay Nock
#10. If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.
Edouard Daladier
#11. Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#12. Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
Augustus William Hare
#14. Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
C.S. Friedman
#15. There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.
Charlie Pierce
#16. So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.
John Stuart Mill
#17. As the philosopher Walter Benjamin put it: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."24
Karen Armstrong
#18. The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
St. Jerome
#19. The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.
Amadeo Bordiga
#20. The German settlers would defend Europe itself at the Ural Mountains, against the Asiatic barbarism that would be forced back to the east. Strife at civilization's edge would test the manhood of coming generations of German settlers.
Timothy Snyder
#21. Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
George Santayana
#22. Civilization is only skin deep, and so is barbarism. Had your country never broken its word and been as just as it is powerful, your red men would have been to-day where our brown men are - our equals." An
Rounsevelle, 1864-1901 Wildman
#23. An acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.
Edmund Wilson
#24. From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will Durant
#25. Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#26. Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.
Gregory Benford
#28. It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
Graham Joyce
#29. The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
Alfred De Vigny
#30. Freedom will always be stronger than barbarism,
Anonymous
#31. Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice ... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
Michel De Montaigne
#32. Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him.
Theodore Monod
#34. The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
Ron Silver
#35. The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
George Berkeley
#36. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.
Victor Hugo
#37. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.
Anonymous
#38. America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
Dinesh D'Souza
#39. The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
Pearl S. Buck
#40. We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?
Mark Frost
#41. The history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.
Catharine Beecher
#42. Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.
Jane Jacobs
#43. It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.
James Bovard
#44. The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.
Leon Bourgeois
#45. The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
David Hare
#46. And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.
Winston S. Churchill
#47. Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
Clare Boothe Luce
#48. Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
Mercedes Lackey
#49. Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
Denis Diderot
#50. This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#51. Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not.
There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.
Neil Gaiman
#52. But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy
Leo Tolstoy
#53. People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
Kenneth Clark
#54. In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.
Edward Gibbon
#55. Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#56. Cutting heads, burning alive and hanging are not punishments, they are only barbarism.
M.F. Moonzajer
#57. I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.
Christopher Hitchens
#58. To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.
Elihu Root
#59. No nation has its own culture, only its own barbarism.
Kustaa Vilkuna
#60. All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor ... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.
Immanuel Kant
#61. Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
Herbert Spencer
#62. The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.
Pat Buchanan
#63. I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil
#65. To treat fiction as if it were a religious or moral sermon is about as far from the actuality of literature as it is possible to get and indeed it is, in my opinion, the purest form of intellectual barbarism.
Edward W. Said
#66. As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.
Isabella Beeton
#67. Those who governed these primitive monasteries soon realised the fact that without books their inmates would relapse into barbarism, and libraries were got together.
John Willis Clark
#69. Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
Bill Kristol
#70. The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#71. There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
Walter Benjamin
#72. America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.
Georges Clemenceau
#73. Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.
William Batchelder Greene
#74. Cadogan Place is the one slight bond that joins two great extremes; it is the connecting link between the aristocratic pavements of Belgrave Square, and the barbarism of Chelsea.
Charles Dickens
#75. If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
Baruch Spinoza
#76. If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
George Papandreou
#77. If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell
#78. With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.
Albert Einstein
#79. I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#80. First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#81. The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas ... and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.
Alfred Lansing
#82. Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.
John Moore
#83. Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?
Suzanne Collins
#84. You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.
Sam Harris
#85. The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!
William Kunstler
#87. Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Thomas Mann
#88. Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
Ovid
#89. We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
Camille Paglia
#90. 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.
Winston Churchill
#91. The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
Antoine Rivarol
#92. Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#93. If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
Thomas Jefferson
#94. Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
Antoine Rivarol
#95. In India there's no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man's face and you'll find an old man's mind.
Meghna Pant
#96. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
#97. 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
#98. Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
Walter Benjamin
#99. As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.
Bertrand Russell
#100. Letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
Thomas Jefferson
