Barbarism Quotes

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

Communism means barbarism.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

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

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

War is at best barbarism.

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

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.

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

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

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

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

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

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

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word.

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.

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

The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

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

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

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

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.