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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
— Thomas Mann
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
— Anatole France
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,
— Robert E. Howard
I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.
— George Carlin
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
— Bill Kristol
In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.
— Edward Gibbon
As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.
— Kenneth Clark
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism. — Ovid
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism. — Ovid
Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Every civilisation that disavows its barbarian potential has already capitulated to barbarism.
— Slavoj Zizek
American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.
— Albert Jay Nock
An acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.
— Edmund Wilson
Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
— Alain Finkielkraut
Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.
— Will Durant
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
— Will Durant
Cutting heads, burning alive and hanging are not punishments, they are only barbarism.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Law is all that separates us from barbarism and the howling within; it is a necessary leash on our darker natures.
— Kevin Hearne
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
— Oscar Wilde
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred De Vigny
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
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
— Denis Diderot
Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.
— Bruce Brander
[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
— George Bernard Shaw
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
— Mercedes Lackey
War is at its best barbarism.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
— Rosa Luxemburg
I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.
— Cathy Burnham Martin
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
— Perry Brass
Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] — Neil Gaiman
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] — Neil Gaiman
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
— Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.
— Michel De Montaigne
Letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
No nation has its own culture, only its own barbarism.
— Kustaa Vilkuna
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
— Robert E. Howard
Communism means barbarism.
— James Russell Lowell
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
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
— George Berkeley
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 modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not
— David Bentley Hart
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
— Herbert Spencer
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
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
— Camille Paglia
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
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
— Robert E. Howard
The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas ... and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.
— Alfred Lansing
War is at best barbarism.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy
— Leo Tolstoy
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
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
As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
— Michel De Montaigne
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.
— Christian Friedrich Hebbel
It is up to the school more than anything else to work against barbarism. ... By barbarism, I do not mean the Beatles.
— T. W. Adorno
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Freedom will always be stronger than barbarism,
— Anonymous
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
— Walter Benjamin
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
— John O'Hara
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
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
If I had to point to one invention in my lifetime that separated howling barbarism from civilized existence, it would be coffee.
— Edward W. Robertson
Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.
— Gregory Benford
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
— Thomas Sowell
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
— Graham Joyce
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.
— Anonymous
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
— Walter Benjamin
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
— George Santayana
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
— Denis Diderot
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
Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
— Karl Friedrich Schinkel
We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.
— Sigmund Freud
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
— Baruch Spinoza
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg