Quotes About Barbarism

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

Les américains sont le seul peuple a être passé directement de la barbarie à la décadence sans passer par ce que l'on nomme ailleurs : Civilisation !

The Savage, wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions. This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that he has heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m---. (Mustapha Mond frowned. Does the fool think I'm too squeamish to see the word written out at full length?)

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Es lo que la gente bestia no comprende. Los han asesinado a los dioses. Pero día vendrá que bajo el sol correrán por los caminos gritando: «Lo queremos a Dios, lo necesitamos a Dios». ¡Qué bárbaros! Yo no me explico cómo lo han podido asesinar a Dios. Pero nosotros los resucitaremos... inventaremos unos dioses hermosos... supercivilizados... ¡y qué otra cosa será entonces la vida!

This is who we are. We sail away from the place we love and then because we aren't there to love it people go with axes and burning torches and smash and burn and then we say, Oh, too sad. But we abandoned it, left it to our barbarian successors to destroy.

We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is hard work to climb down out of the trees and walk upright,and build a viable global civilization when you start with technology that is made of rocks and sticks and fur. This is a project, and progress is dificult.

Leave us our poor relics, Roman, and do not complete the work of your fathers. They came as conquerors; you come as a friend. What was barbarism on their part, would be sacrilege on yours.

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that they still call for equality in slavery. They will endure poverty, servitude, barbarism--but they will not endure aristocracy.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

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

Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They are what separate the civilized man from the barbarian.

it was unnerving that a stronghold of barbarism should lie so dangerously close to civilized Italy.

Cehalet ile bilginin, vahÅŸilik ve kültürün kesiÅŸmesi... ölülerimize gösterdiÄŸimiz sayg?yla baÅŸlar.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

La tentazione della barbarie passa immutata da generazione a generazione, e riaffiorerà sempre ogni volta che ce ne sarà l'occasione adatta.

Només vaig escriure poemes d'amor quan estimava. Com hauria pogut escriure cançons d'odi, sense odi? [...] Com hauria pogut jo, per a qui només tenen importància la cultura i la barbàrie, odiar una nació [la francesa] que figura entre les més cultes del món, i a la qual devia una part tan gran de la meva formació?

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Satan.

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal,' de Tocqueville wrote, 'but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

The killer kills in a minute; whereas, the executor of false happiness or fake hopes stays killing you every moment of every day; it is the utmost barbarism.

If women are by barbarians reduced to the level of slaves, it is because barbarians themselves have never yet risen to the rank of men.