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  • Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

    What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852
  • A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.

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

    Age   Humans   Barbarity  
  • 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.'

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

  • Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

    David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.467
  • universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive
  • 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.

  • Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

    Wall   Army   Attachment  
  • 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 (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive
  • It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

    Men   Connections   Odd  
    Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.407
  • Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  • Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.

    Country   Sugar   Growing  
    William Wells Brown (2012). “The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
  • Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.

    Men   Soul   Church  
    "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.
  • I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.

    Allies   Facts   Remember  
    Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
  • 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.

  • How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.

    Children   Women   Blood  
  • If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

    War   People   Answers  
    United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 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
  • 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.

    Islands   People   Mars  
  • When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

    War   Civilization   Evil  
  • Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

    War   Fighting   People  
  • What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

    What If   Culture   Break  
    Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.6, Verso
  • Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

    "New Again: David Bowie". Interview with Patrick Salvo, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.
  • The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

    "Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013)". dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 21, 2013.
  • 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.

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

    Men   Progress   Age  
  • There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

    Country   War   Hero  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.227
  • 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.

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