Robert E. Howard  - Quotes

 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 ape, roaring and red-handed. 

Tags: barbarism   civilization     


C.S. Lewis  - Quotes

 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 manners of par-

ents to children than by those of children to parents.

Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family

meals where the father or mother treated their

grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered

to any other young people, would simply have termi-

nated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on mat-

ters which the children understand and their elders

don't, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions,

ridicule of things the young take seriously some-

times of their religion insulting references to their

friends, all provide an easy answer to the question

 

Tags: barbarism   civility   generation   love   parenting     
Bertolt Brecht  - Quotes

 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 barbarians. 

Tags: barbarism   politics     




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