Top Barbarism Quotes

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

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.

Barbarism Definition

(n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.

(n.) A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.

(n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses...

Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent...

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

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

I believe the intensity of the pity you feel for an animal has to do with how it evokes pity for yourself.... Innocence is something we humans pass through and leave behind, unable to return. But anim...

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

On problems finding female ancestors,of any background, remember "I cannot put gas in my car without a note from my husband. The Car, the house, and everything else I think that I own is in his name....

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.

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.

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape,...

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised up...

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and...

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

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

War is at its best barbarism.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbar...