49 Quotes About Barbarism

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.

Cutting heads, burning alive and hanging are not punishments, they are only barbarism.

Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.

Look, Mister, if you wanna call yourself Grunthaar and run around the woods in a loincloth all day, that’s all very well, but don’t expect supper to be waiting when you get home.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him.

A state that employs torture invites barbarism and deserves nothing better than to suffer the harvest of its own excesses.

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.

What is happening in Kosovo is entirely unacceptable and the only way of stopping it is if President Milosevic knows that if he continues with these policies of barbarism towards the ethnic community there he will get a punishment from the international community,