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.
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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.
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.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
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.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
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.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
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