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Letter "B" » barbarism
«You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.»
Author: John Buchan
(Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
barbarism, bring back, division, push back, reign, Saturn, separates, sheet, The Division, thread
«People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.»
«The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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absolve, absolved, acquiring, barbarism, deteriorates, End Of The Century, Future of, infinitely small, millennia, millennium, physical world, prosperous, Return Of, The Millennium, uncertain
«War is at its best barbarism.»
«Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's fle»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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abhorrent, barbarism, endowed
«The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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aristocracy, barbarism, chivalry, disgusting, forerunner, forerunners, odious, republicanism, ruins, scarcely
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