Barbarism Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Elihu Root

  War, Civilization, Causes

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

  Adam Smith

  Peace, Justice, Littles

  Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96

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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.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Art, Philosophy, Years

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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.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Greek, Hibernation, Able

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 44, 1799.

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• Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

  Thomas Mann

  Levels, Miserable, Hysterical

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.317, A&C Black

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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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Order, Sobriety, Moments

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868). “The Chimney-corner”, p.32

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• There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

  Amelia Earhart

  War, Done, Civilized

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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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

  Clifford D. Simak

  Technology, Civilization, Path

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Heritage of Stars”, p.141, Open Road Media

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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

  Ron Silver

  Respect, Century, Scales

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• Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

  William Kristol

  Civilization, Patriotism, Defense

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• The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Luxury, Aristocracy, Ruins

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.387

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• If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Struggle, Political

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• America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, 4th Of July, Unique

  Dinesh D'Souza (2012). “What's So Great About America”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

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• 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.

  Tony Blair

  September 11, Adequate, Shame

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

  David Hare

  Civilization, Tendencies, Ultimate

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• The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.

  Wafa Sultan

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

  Mason Cooley

  Civilization, Discontent

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• Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Reading

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 144, 1799.

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• Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

  Karl Friedrich Schinkel

  Art, Indifference, Fine

  Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11, p. 94; also in "The Dictionary of Art", Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner, 1976.

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• It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

  Graham Joyce

  Firsts, Social, Elitist

  "Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Civilization, Twenties

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• Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Republic, Anarchy

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• Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

  Denis Diderot

  Steps, Just One, Fanaticism

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• Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Transition, Regression, Socialism

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• The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.

  Theodor Adorno

  Order, Evil, Hatred

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.94, Verso

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