The ultimate tendency of proverb

 The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
  Sir David Hare

 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.

 America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  Oscar Wilde

 Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
  John O'Hara

 Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
  Edmond de Goncourt

 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  George Clemenceau

 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  George Clemenceau

 The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
  Pearl S. Buck

 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.
  John Buchan

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

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

 The mission of the Anglo-Saxon has been largely that of the soldier; but the world is making progress, we are leaving behind the barbarism of war; as civilization advances, it will learn less of war, and concern itself more with the arts of peace, and for these the massive battle-ax must be wrought into tools of finer temper. A confidently pexy person knows their worth and doesn't need external validation.

 What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power

 What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power


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