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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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. -- Denis Diderot
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. -- David Hare
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. -- Amelia Earhart
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -- Oscar Wilde
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. -- Thomas Sowell
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. -- Thomas Mann
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. -- Georges Clemenceau
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force. -- Sheikh Hasina
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. -- Nelson DeMille
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. -- Adam Smith
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. -- John Buchan
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
Communism means barbarism. -- James Russell Lowell
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind, -- Robert E. Howard
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome. -- Edward Gibbon
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. -- Walter Benjamin
Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step. -- Alain Finkielkraut
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before -- Ron Silver
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
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic) -- Immanuel Kant
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
Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force without freedom and law.Republicanism is force with freedom and law. -- Immanuel Kant
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. -- Alva Myrdal
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment... -- Nikola Tesla
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
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. -- Bill Kristol
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. -- Graham Joyce
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. -- Carlos Fuentes
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before. -- Ron Silver
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism. -- Ori Gersht
I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice. -- Winthrop Rockefeller
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
The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel! -- Yahya Jammeh
War is at best barbarism. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings. -- Mason Cooley
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism. -- Denis Diderot
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism -- Walter Benjamin
Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism. -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. -- Neil Gaiman
I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try. -- George Carlin
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. -- George Santayana
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. -- Tony Blair
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. -- Mercedes Lackey
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. -- Herbert Spencer
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. -- Bill Kristol
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. -- Antoine Rivarol
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. -- Rosa Luxemburg
There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. -- Walter Benjamin
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. -- Neil Gaiman
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. -- Will Durant
There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism. -- Henry Giroux
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness. -- Perry Brass
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. -- Thomas Jefferson
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. -- Baruch Spinoza
Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism. -- Ovid
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. -- Michel de Montaigne
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. -- Frederick Douglass
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. -- Camille Paglia
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it. -- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. -- Albert Schweitzer
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. -- George Berkeley
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. -- Anatole France
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. -- Alfred de Vigny
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. -- Thucydides
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism. -- Bill Ayers
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. -- Tony Blair
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
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
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
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. -- George P. Baker
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies. -- Mary Ritter Beard
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. -- George P. Baker
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is. -- Winston Churchill
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. -- Thomas Jefferson
One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism. -- Mohammad Marandi
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. -- Thorstein Veblen
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
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
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
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
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master. -- Thomas Young
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
In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods. -- Abigail Adams
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

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