Barbaric Quotes Page 2

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

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.

Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental.

It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos.

It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.

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

I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes. He’s not the kind of man you take home to meet your stepmom.” I rethought that. “Wait a minute. Maybe my stepmom would like to meet him. Do you think he ships to Istanbul?

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance.

We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist, terrorist group.

I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.

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.

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

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life.

We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.

First you destroy those who create values.

Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

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

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.

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.

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

America wasn't founded as a theocracy.

America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.

And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

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.