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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.

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.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

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.

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.