Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Denis Diderot
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart
War is at its best barbarism.
William Tecumseh Sherman
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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... →
Alva Myrdal