{"quotes":[{"text":"Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["barbarian","barbarism","civil","civilization","courtesy","manners","passion"],"id":144,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any ranking rules or hierarchy. Whoever wishes to understand the twentieth century must always keep the barbaric factor in view. Precisely in more recent modernity, it was and still is typical to allow an alliance between barbarism and success before a large audience, initially more in the form of insensitive imperialism, and today in the costumes of that invasive vulgarity which advances into virtually all areas through the vehicle of popular culture. That the barbaric position in twentieth-century Europe was even considered the way forward among the purveyors of high culture for a time, extending to a messianism of uneducatedness, indeed the utopia of a new beginning on the clean slate of ignorance, illustrates the extent of the civilizatory crisis this continent has gone through in the last century and a half - including the cultural revolution downwards, which runs through the twentieth century in our climes and casts its shadow ahead onto the twenty-first.","author":"Peter Sloterdijk","tags":["20th-century","21st-century","barbarian","barbaric","barbarism","civilization","iconoclast","ignorance","twentieth-century","vandal","vulgar","vulgarity"],"id":27025,"author_id":"Peter+Sloterdijk"},{"text":"In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.","author":"Meghna Pant","tags":["barbarism","india","modern","modernity","old","progress"],"id":33172,"author_id":"Meghna+Pant"},{"text":"The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amuse","amusement","barbarian","barbarism","bore","bored-boredom","civilization","civilized","complain","complaint","destination","entertain","entertainment","hurry","meditate","meditation","road-rage","stress","stress-free","stress-management","stress-relief","stressed","stressful","suffer","suffering","traffic","traffic-jam"],"id":56037,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"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 nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.","author":"Edward Bellamy","tags":["barbarism","chaos","civilization"],"id":57625,"author_id":"Edward+Bellamy"},{"text":"The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is ever marvelling that civilization, should have offended him with priests and soldiers.... In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this, that he cannot make: that he can befog and destroy but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true.We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["barbarians","barbarism","civilization","consumption","discipline","work"],"id":76318,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph.","author":"Robert E. Howard","tags":["barbarism","civilization"],"id":96827,"author_id":"Robert+E.+Howard"},{"text":"Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos!This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three days ago, fleeing in humiliating shame, those three days a constant running battle. For three days the accursed Imperial ship Indomitable had followed, firing on them at every opportunity. Death or imprisonment now awaited those who called themselves Corsairs – and though this death was now more certain rather than just a possibility, Sona Kilroy, or “The Hammer” as he was called by his men, was not prepared to give up his freedom so easily. Piracy was his life and he’d known no other. He was tough and cruel, a despicable man, a case in point when academics quoted the barbarism by which the Corsairs had made themselves known and feared across the star systems of the peaceful Terran Empire.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","accursed","ago","awaited","barbarism","battle","black","called","case","chaos","constant","corsairs","cruel","easily","empire","every","fleeing","followed","give","had","he-was","his","in","island","little","made","man","men","meradinis","more","now","opportunity","other","possibility","shame","ship","sona","star","terran","the","themselves","this","to","tough","was"],"id":123804,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["barbarians","barbarism","barbarous","evil","evil-men","evil-people","evil-thoughts","evilness","jungle-law","self-destruction","survival-of-the-fittest"],"id":130357,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most “savage” or “barbarous” of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.","author":"Claude Lévi-Strauss","tags":["anthropology","barbarian","barbarism","cultural-differences","cultural-relativism","culture","ethnocentrism","savage","savagery"],"id":142389,"author_id":"Claude+L%C3%A9vi-Strauss"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}