#barb

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. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#based #civilization #continue #found #mankind

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#barbara #bush #first #had #issues

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 being brutalized. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#also #barbarism #being #brutalized #characterized

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#barbarism #be prepared #civilization #defend #force

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. ↗

— Richard Hughes

#barbarity #bit #humanity #into #novels

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#analysis #answer #barbarian #behaviour #clear

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#civilization #lamb #skin #which

BABARIC! ↗

— Robert Byrd

#barbaric #dog-fighting #old-people #robert-byrd #u-s-senate

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London! ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#demon #sweeney-todd #beauty