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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Barbarism Fanaticism Only Step

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Back Barbarism Bring Civilization Die Every Five Four Hundred Hundred Years Life Needed Otherwise World Would Years

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To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Barbarism Begin Causes Civilization Deal Extent Fact Familiar Great Great Extent Incomplete Modification Must Partial Prime Problem Recognizing Solution Superficial True War

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

Topics: Able Attain Barbarism Greeks Hardly Human Human Nature Knowledge Nature New Passing Possessed Seem Strengthening Through Without

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If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

~George Papandreou

Topics: Barbarism Been Change Country Dictatorships Difficult Fact Feel Gone Greece Had Huge Just Life Lived Made May Me Normal Polarization Political Political Life Politics Struggles Through Very

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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

~George Pierce Baker

Topics: Action Ages Back Barbarism Civilization Drama Essence Find Instinctive Pleasure Through Tongues Very

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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

~Georges Clemenceau

Topics: America Barbarism Civilization Directly Gone History Interval Nation Only Usual Which Without

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