The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.