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War is at best barbarism.
Communism means barbarism.
War is at its best barbarism.
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.
I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
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.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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.
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 rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.