“ We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ 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. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ 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… Peter Sloterdijk
“ Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ 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… George Bernard Shaw
“ [H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. George Bernard Shaw
“ Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk. Will Durant
“ 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… Sigrid Nunez
“ 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. Kedar Joshi
“ 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.… christina kassabian schaefer
“ Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step. Alain Finkielkraut
“ 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… Bertolt Brecht
“ 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… John Stuart Mill
“ 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… Will Durant
“ 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. Robert Graves
“ 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,… Robert E. Howard
“ Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph Robert E. Howard
“ The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who see… Claude Levi-Strauss
“ Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nat… Edward Bellamy
