Quotes About Barbarism

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

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

la línea divisoria entre la barbarie y la civilización nunca es una frontera geográfica entre diferentes países, sino una frontera moral dentro de cada pueblo; es más, dentro de cada individuo».

He would however permit himself to relieve the Past of the absurd feminine gender with which the Germans have credited it. That the Germans should provide their finest achievements, those abstract ideas, with feminine articles is one of those incomprehensible barbarisms by which they nullify their own merits. He would in future sanctify everything connected with God with a masculine affix.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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

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!

Against all this mechanized barbarism, existentialist psychology and humanist psychology — aided, perhaps not coincidentally, by the metaphors of quantum physics — suggests that other models of human existence are possible and thinkable and desirable.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

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

The new gun, Stanley said, would be "of valuable service in helping civilisation to overcome barbarism." When

Pour élever un État du dernier degré de barbarie au plus haut degré d'opulence, il ne faut que trois choses : la paix, des taxes modérées et une administration tolérable de la justice. Tout le reste est amené par le cours naturel des choses.

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.

In the words of the great twentieth-century philosopher-historian R. G. Collingwood: 'Deep in the mind of every Roman, as in the mind of every Greek, was the unquestioned conviction which Aristotle put into words: that what raised man above the level of barbarism … to live well instead of merely living, was his membership of an actual, physical city.

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.

Did you deem yourself strong because you were able to twist the heads off civilised folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong.

He saw no particular humor in it, and was too new to civilization to understand its discourtesies. Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. He was bewildered and chagrined, and doubtless would have slunk away, abashed, but the Kothian chose

los hombres civilizados son más descorteses que los salvajes, pues saben que por lo general pueden ser maleducados sin que nadie les abra la cabeza. Se

I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense.