As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
We are a plague on the Earth.
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.
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.