Barbarity Quotes

• The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Philosophical, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). "101 Hechos de la vida", p.8, Publishdrive.

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• 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.

  Ellen Key

  Teamwork, Peace, Military

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• Si el pueblo levanta un gran aullido contra mi barbarie y crueldad, responderé que la guerra es la guerra, y no la búsqueda de popularidad.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Guerra, Gente, Respuestas

  Estados Unidos. Congress. Comité Conjunto sobre la Conducción de la Guerra, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Henry Thomas, John Pope, John Gray Foster (1866). "Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session", p.190

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• Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Darkness, Clumsiness

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• la compasión universal es la única garantía de moralidad.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Amistad, Compasión, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). "101 Hechos de la vida", p.8, Publishdrive.

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• It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Civilization, Twenties

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• Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Today, Remember

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• We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages except our own.

  Ernest Howard Crosby

  Age, Humans

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• Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Acostumbrados

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• I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

  Frederick Douglass

  Covering, Shelter, Deeds

  Frederick Douglass (1846). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.77

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• Frente a la barbarie, la poesía sólo puede resistir confirmando su apego a la fragilidad humana como una brizna de hierba que crece en un muro mientras desfilan los ejércitos.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Wall, Army, Attachment

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• Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Practice, Diversity, May

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• Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Country, Religious, Independent

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• The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Civilization, Renaissance, Certain

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• His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

  Bela Bartok

  Music, Echoes, Years

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• A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.

  Ernest Howard Crosby

  Men, Progress, Age

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• When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Hair

  "The Last Messiah". Essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1933.

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• It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Christian, Courage, Blessing

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• Aunque los linchamientos han aumentado constantemente en número y barbarie durante los últimos veinte años, no ha habido ni un solo esfuerzo por parte de las muchas fuerzas morales y filantrópicas del país para poner fin a esta matanza al por mayor.

  Ida B. Wells

  Country, Lynching, Years

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• Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Years, Choices, Twenties

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Eric Hobsbawm (2012). “The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition”, p.28, Verso Books

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• Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Islands, People, Mars

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• Sooner barbarity than boredom.

  Theophile Gautier

  Blessing, Boredom

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• Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

  Jules Michelet

  Life, Animal, Men

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• In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Religious, Military, Order

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• It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Connections, Odd

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.407

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