Top 191 Barbarism Quotes & Sayings

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

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

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.

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

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

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

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.

Communism means barbarism.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

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

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

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

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

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

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

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

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

War is at best barbarism.

War is at its best barbarism.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

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

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.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

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.

I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

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

I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.

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.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

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