49 Quotes About Barbarism
- Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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- Author Sigrid Nunez
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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 animals live and die in that state, and seeing innocence violated in the form of cruelty to a mere duck can seem like the most barbaric act in the world.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.
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- Author Vera Nazarian
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Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.
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- Author Will Durant
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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 upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed barbarism, superstition and ignorance. Modernity is a cap superimposed upon the Middle Ages, which always remain.
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- Author Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
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The collapse of a civilization is a tragedy. The collapse of an anti-civilization is a relief. The collapse of a pseudo-civilization is a formality.
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- Author Bertolt Brecht
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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 barbarians.
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- Author Kakuzō Okakura
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Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
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- Author Jose Ortega y Gasset
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If you want to make use of the advantages of civilisation, but are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilisation—you are done.
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