War is at its best barbarism.
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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
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Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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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.
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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.
quote by Nelson DeMille
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
quote by Edmond de Goncourt
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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.
quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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.
quote by Clifford D. Simak
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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.
quote by Simone Weil
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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
quote by Georges Clemenceau
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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.
quote by Saint Jerome
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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.
quote by George P. Baker
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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.
quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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.
quote by Winthrop Rockefeller
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