Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
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.
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.
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