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There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism (Barbarism Quotes)
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 (Barbarism Quotes)
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism. (Barbarism Quotes)
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race. (Barbarism Quotes)
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. (Barbarism Quotes)
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. (Barbarism Quotes)
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called barbarism and defined as ‘the belief that the laws of one’s own tribe are the laws of the universe’. (Barbarism Quotes)
I hate and fear ‘science’ because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men’s minds and hardening their hearts (Barbarism Quotes)
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization (Barbarism Quotes)
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness (Barbarism Quotes)
One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism (Barbarism Quotes)
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment (Barbarism Quotes)
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 (Barbarism Quotes)
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does (Barbarism Quotes)
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 (Barbarism Quotes)
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 (Barbarism Quotes)
Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. Was, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen (Barbarism Quotes)
Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it (Barbarism Quotes)
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 (Barbarism Quotes)
Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in (Barbarism Quotes)
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force (Barbarism Quotes)
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 (Barbarism Quotes)
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism (Barbarism Quotes)
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric (Barbarism Quotes)
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men (Barbarism Quotes)
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization (Barbarism Quotes)
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 (Barbarism Quotes)
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before (Barbarism Quotes)
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 (Barbarism Quotes)
We must have research for peace... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man’s intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race (Barbarism Quotes)