Barbarism Quotes

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

Country, America, Between

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell

Accept, Force, Prepared

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

Peace, Justice, Else

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

Government, Trying, Problems

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

Human, Play, Less

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Denis Diderot

Step, Fanaticism

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

Women, Moment, Her

War is at its best barbarism.
William Tecumseh Sherman

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart

War, Done, Civilized

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

Real, Humanity, Everyone

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

Nature, Knowledge, Human

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Made, Absence, Standards

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Thomas Mann

Miserable, Level, Broke

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
Carlos Fuentes

Help, Support, Beyond

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

Technology, Path, Found

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau

History, America, Nation

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

Great, War, True

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
Ron Silver

Life, Respect, Human

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
David Hare

Ultimate, Tendency, Towards

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

Age, Live, Process

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

Here, Tell, Earth

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
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

Through, Find, Action

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

Life, Change, Politics

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 polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
Georgios A. Papandreou

Life, Change, Politics

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
John O'Hara

May, Country, America

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
Bill Kristol

Patriotism, Against, Defense

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

Justice, May, American

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
Graham Joyce

Others, Social, Elitist

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

Life, Die, Bring

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