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Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions. -- David Hume
Sooner barbarity than boredom. -- Theophile Gautier
Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to. -- Michel de Montaigne
We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages except our own. -- Ernest Howard Crosby
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. -- Richard Hughes
Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians? -- Adolf Hitler
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. -- Bela Bartok
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. -- Jules Michelet
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. -- Pierre Schaeffer
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less. -- Joseph Addison
The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. -- Mahmoud Darwish
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own. -- Ernest Howard Crosby
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island. -- Brigitte Bardot
Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory. -- George VI
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating. -- John Ruskin
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. -- Ellen Key
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice " slave of religious fanaticism " slave of barbarity and inhumanity. -- Saadat Hasan Manto
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe

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