#barbarism

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 in the only guarantee of morality. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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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

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

— Thomas Mann

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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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

— Bill Kristol

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War is at its best barbarism. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#best #war

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. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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