America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.    From LearnThat.org.  [Oscar Wilde]

Most religions began in barbarism and all have mostly grown up save one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defense Dept. releases objectives of Fort Hood review] Reference

Conan, representing barbarism, is either in conflict or competition with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Tower of the Elephant (part 2)] Reference

Man, emerging from barbarism, is like an intelligent child, full of curiosity about himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference

Basically, the cause of all Arab poverty, poor schooling and general barbarism is because of Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: The Israel Gambit] Reference

Answering crime with crime, or barbarism with barbarism, is neither in the definition nor even in the interest of States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty] Reference

I and mine seem to think that, as from alcoholism, the first step to recovery from barbarism is admitting the problem exists.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Dan Simmons Story] Reference

This good and quiet behaviour, surprising in men little beyond barbarism, is attributed by many to the system of servitude they are under.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

And, as usual, the barbarism is the more engaging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

The so-called barbarism of the thirteenth century is no longer credited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The evils and oppressions we know will seem blessings if we turn a blind eye to this barbarism, which is everywhere rising around us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plains-spoken philosophy] Reference

The association of the term 'Gothic' with the idea of barbarism made him exalt the art of a 'noble savage' which he could never have seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zebra Crossings] Reference

If that is what you call barbarism, so be it.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I mean, when is the human species going to evolve beyond this kind of barbarism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2009] Reference

What more do we need to know about the kind of barbarism the IDF has descended to?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Over Gaza Continues Online - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

There can be no excuse for this kind of barbarism and blatant disrespect for the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [STATEMENT ON MURDER OF POLICEMEN INKWAZULU/NATAL] Reference

He wrote: 'It is sad that the war is being waged against the "barbarism" of the Germans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 1] Reference

Sick of this new "barbarism," Moraes retires to Andalusia, there to confront another monster or evil, Vasco Miranda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palimpsest Regained] Reference

Also invoking "barbarism" w ere Saudi Arabia ( "inhuman"), Syria ( "blatant defiance of ... civilized values") and Morocco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beating Up on Israel] Reference

So internment, the Tokyo firebomb raids, Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not constitute "barbarism", but waterboarding KSM does?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["[T]he Obama administration may be attempting to appease its antiwar base ... or trying to look good for the chattering classes."] Reference

The original Padrão was destroyed by the Dutch in 1645, an act of barbarism which is justly called “Vandalica façanha.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

Far from "barbarism", euthanasia would be a step toward that enlightenment which I consider to be found only in true nihilism.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This kind of barbarism -- looting, graverobbing, banditry, corpses floating through the streets -- isn't supposed to happen here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Bradley: Labor Daze] Reference

But the unfavorable comparison with city wage earners and the repetition to-day of Marx's term "barbarism" is no longer justified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference

He accused the protesters of "barbarism" and "banditry," and shut the door to compromise with political opponents who led the protests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belarus Leader RejectsOutcry After Election] Reference

Value and importance of the term "barbarism" 35, 36.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference

See? the US has more in common with the 'barbarism' in.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

"each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference

Simon Cowell faces claims of 'barbarism' in British lawsuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARTISTdirect.com] Reference

See? the US has more in common with the 'barbarism' in Drag to Playlist.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

But this kind of barbarism did not stand in the way of an almost childish gaiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Simple Story] Reference

Turner also referred to the "barbarism" of the British government in the Middle East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry's Place] Reference

Yet the term "barbarism" is a very useful one; indispensable, indeed, in the history of human progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference

The original Padrão was destroyed by the Dutch in 1645, an act of barbarism which is justly called "Vandalica façanha.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference

I am sure Obama would not want someone doing that to him yet he has supported this kind of barbarism and still supports abortion rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Lynchburg News Advance] Reference

Perhaps she has never seen the film Black Hawk Down, which might have given her a clue as to the kind of barbarism that can occur when the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Post: Latest] Reference

The atmosphere, then, is but half Arabic; the rest belongs to that flaunting, multi-coloured barbarism which is characteristic of Northern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia] Reference