Quotes on 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.

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

Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

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

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.

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

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

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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

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

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

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.

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.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.

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