A Quote by Rosa Luxemburg

Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into barbarism" mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.

Rosa Luxemburg

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Rosa Luxemburg
Russian - Activist
March 5, 1871 - January 15, 1919

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

Rosa Luxemburg

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Will Durant

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

Alice Miller

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Antoine Rivarol

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Mercedes Lackey

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

Oscar Wilde

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

Frederick Douglass

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Neil Gaiman

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

Neale Donald Walsch

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

John O'Hara

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.

William Batchelder Greene

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

Dinesh D'Souza

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