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“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word.”
“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies bar...”
“Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.”
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back f...”
“Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.”
“What I am trying to tell you, Trinka said softly, looking back at him, is that there are good ways to live, and bad ones. This is not a matter of opinion; it is objective truth. The Empire fights t...”
“On problems finding female ancestors,of any background, remember "I cannot put gas in my car without a note from my husband. The Car, the house, and everything else I think that I own is in his nam...”
“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.”
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised...”
“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad ma...”
“Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.”
“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience a...”
“The human race is a letdown, Ernest a bad, bad letdown. And Im disgusted with it. It thinks its progressed, but it hasnt. It thinks its risen above the primeval slime, but it hasnt. Its wallowing ...”
“In India theres no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young mans face and youll find an old mans mind.”
“Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph”
“My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the a...”
“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”
“Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in ...”
“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.”
“Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.”
