Barbarism Quotes

The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s ...

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. I...

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumsta...

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands...

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

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation o...

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concre...

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization tea...

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance ...

War is at its best barbarism.

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

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barb...

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might...

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely ...

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...

Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the...

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will ...

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost...