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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
— Bill Kristol
As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.
— Kenneth Clark
Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.
— Albert Jay Nock
Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.
— Will Durant
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
[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
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
War is at best barbarism.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine ... War is hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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
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
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
We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.
— Sigmund Freud
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
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
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
— Thomas Sowell
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
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
— Michel De Montaigne
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