Quotes About Barbarism

The Roman clergy thus adopted the old aristocracy's ideal of libertas, which had little to do with freedom; rather, it referred to the maintenance of the privileged position of the ruling class, lest society lapse into barbarism.

philosopher Walter Benjamin put it: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed. And why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce

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.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

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

fields in the world laid waste; and five millions of harmless and industrious people were either expelled or destroyed. Want of foresight became more fatal than innate barbarism; and [the company's servants] found themselves wading

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

In this view, capitalism—the system that supports the democracies of the West and has raised the living standards of hundreds of millions of human beings to levels that only royalty enjoyed in the past—is barbarism, while the system that murdered millions and impoverished whole continents is civilization.

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

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

He had always found this a comforting thought, that the age of barbarism was not long past, that if humans failed to be kind it was because they were still children, historically speaking

The aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh argued in popular radio speeches that it would be foolish and hypocritical to fight Germany. He said America had no standing to accuse the Nazis of aggression and barbarism because America had sometimes been aggressive and barbaric itself. Later he argued that American Jews were a "danger to this country" on account of their "ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

A loucura humana é fonte de ódio, crueldade, barbárie, cegueira.

American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.

As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.

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

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

War is at best barbarism…. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

The poet was right: there was inevitably a share for the Devil in every religion that God offered man; a tiny share, but largely sufficient to falsify the Message and leave the unwary astray down the path of evil and barbarism. That Devil's share is ignorance.