Barbarism quotes

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Civilization #Excess #Barbarism

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

#War #Done #Barbarism

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

#Violence #Cynicism #Barbarism

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
-- Carlos Fuentes

#Support #Helping #Barbarism

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
-- David Hare

#Civilization #Tendencies #Barbarism

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
-- George Santayana

#Pleasure #Barbarism

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

#Firsts #Social #Barbarism

Communism means barbarism.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Mean #Communism #Barbarism

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
-- Karl Friedrich Schinkel

#Art #Indifference #Barbarism

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

#Mean #Civilization #Barbarism

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,
-- Robert E. Howard

#Natural #Barbarism #States

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.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#Men #Age #Barbarism

There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
-- Walter Benjamin

#Civilization #Barbarism

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
-- Walter Benjamin

#Inspirational #Civilization #Barbarism

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

#Kindness #Form #Barbarism