Quotes About Barbarism

The three axes allow each tribe to assert moral superiority. The progressive asserts moral superiority by denouncing oppression and accusing others of failing to do so. The conservative asserts moral superiority by denouncing barbarism and accusing others of failing to do so. The libertarian asserts moral superiority by denouncing coercion and accusing others of failing to do so.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

Due to its lack of tranquillity, our civilisation is heading toward a new barbarism.

The slavery of barbarians (i.e. our own slavery). The division of labour is the principle of barbarism. Dominance of mechanism. In an organism, the parts cannot be separated. The individualism of modernity and its opposite in antiquity. The wholly isolated individual of today is too weak and joins groups of slaves?of e.g. an academic discipline, a concept, a vice.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

The difference between a civilized man and a barbarous fiend—a madman, say - Lies, perhaps, Merely in a thin veneer of willed self-restraint.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

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

Protecting life is a value that matters. Whether it is stopping partial birth abortion which I think is a barbarism. Or whether it is fairly enforcing the criminal laws against Planned Parenthood.

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

Being "civilized" had originally meant living under Roman, or "civil," law; but at the dawn of the Renaissance it had come to denote a way of life and law distinct from that of barbarism. It included prohibitions against murder, incest, and cannibalism; belief in a transcendant creative divinity; respect for property and legal contracts; and essential social institutions such as marriage, friendship, and the family.

Triste España —comenta, desolado—. Basta alejarse unas leguas de cualquier ciudad para encontrarse entre bárbaros. —No faltan en otras naciones, don Hermes... Lo que pasa es que éstos duelen más porque son nuestros.

Ateis laikas, kai žmogus nebejaus malonumo žudydamas. Bet kol dar taip n?ra, žmogus negali vadintis civilizuotu, jis papras?iausias barbaras, tr?kstamoji grandis tarp laukini? jo prot?vi?, kurie žudydavo kits kit? akmeniniais kirvukais d?l žalios m?sos gabalo, ir ateities žmogaus.

Posterity may judge Churchill less harshly. If he thought that Russian Communism represented an awful regression into barbarism, he was quite right. Generations of starry-eyed enthusiasts in the West would be enchanted by the Soviet myth, and then disenchanted because they had learned what 'we never knew', when in fact everything could be known from the start. There was, after all, no mystery.

Die Unterdrücker der Menschheit bestrafen, ist Gnade; ihnen verzeihen, ist Barbarei.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Man sank into a superstitious barbarism during which he distorted history to remove his sense of impotence and failure

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.