Quotes of: Barbarism Keyword

Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

Danny Sugerman

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.

Leon Bourgeois

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

Alain Finkielkraut

Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Ai Weiwei

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

William Hazlitt

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.

Alva Myrdal

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Nelson Mandela

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Sushmita Banerjee

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ , ALA interview 2011]

Neil Gaiman

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Pierre Schaeffer

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

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

George Santayana

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Tom Conti

John Keating: I SOUND MY BARBARIC YAWP OVER THE ROOFTOPS OF THE WORLD.

Dead Poets Society

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

Mahmoud Darwish

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

Clark M. Clifford

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

Les Misérables

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Richard Hughes

Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture.

Seth D.

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

Wole Soyinka