Barbarism Quotes
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Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
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.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
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.
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.
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.
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.
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.
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
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.
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.
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.
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.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
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.
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
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.
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.
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
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
In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
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.
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.