#barbarism

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


Georges Clemenceau


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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.


Ron Silver


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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of par- ents to children than by those of children to parents. Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family meals where the father or mother treated their grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered to any other young people, would simply have termi- nated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on mat- ters which the children understand and their elders don't, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions, ridicule of things the young take seriously some- times of their religion insulting references to their friends, all provide an easy answer to the question "Why are they always out? Why do they like every house better than their home?" Who does not prefer civility to barbarism?


C.S. Lewis


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My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.


Robert E. Howard


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[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.


George Bernard Shaw


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