Words matter. These are the best Barbarism Quotes from famous people such as Bill Kristol, Edmond de Goncourt, Elihu Root, George Papandreou, William Tecumseh Sherman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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.
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country.
War is at its best barbarism.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
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.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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.
The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept 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.
No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a book. By this fact alone, we can conclude that readers are nicer people, at least until they put the book down. When we are reading, we are better.
Civilization is the lamb’s skin in which barbarism masquerades.
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
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.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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.
I call for the awakening of our people’s ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
