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Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.
— Wayne W. Dyer
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
— Anatole France
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
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
— Okakura Kakuzo
...she was herself entire, and knew she could not be consumed.
— Helen Oyeyemi
When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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
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
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
Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.
— Bruce Brander
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
— Mercedes Lackey
If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.
— Andrew VanWyngarden
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
— Antoine Rivarol
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
— Ingrid Bergman
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
— Herbert Spencer
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
— Robert E. Howard
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
— Robert E. Howard
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
— Walter Benjamin
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.[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
I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.
— Amish Tripathi
Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.
— Anonymous
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
— Thomas Sowell
I respect the older guys.
— Shaquille O'Neal
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
— John O'Hara
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
— Walter Benjamin
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
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
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
