A Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
American - Poet
November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907

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

Will Durant

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

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

Mercedes Lackey

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

John O'Hara

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Walter Benjamin

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Alphonse de Lamartine

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

C. S. Lewis

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare

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.

Alva Myrdal

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Bill Kristol

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

Neil Gaiman

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

Oscar Wilde

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.