Barbarei / Barbarism Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Barbarei / Barbarism:

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

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

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

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.

George Pierce Baker

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

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.

Winthrop Rockefeller

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

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

Bill Kristol

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

John Buchan

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Denis Diderot

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sheikh Hasina

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare

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

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Thomas Sowell

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

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

Thomas Mann

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.

Simone Weil

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

Ron Silver

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

Ori Gersht

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

Graham Joyce

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.

Nelson DeMille

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

John O'Hara

War is at its best barbarism.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.

Marine Le Pen

The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!

Yahya Jammeh