All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced there come in with her courtesy cleanliness sobriety and order.

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.

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

War is at its best barbarism.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism a new path must be found a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

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.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

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.

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

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems the government is trying to suppress the people by force.