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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
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.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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