#barbarism

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

— John O'Hara

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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 polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

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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

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Thomas Mann

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

— Bill Kristol

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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

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