barbarity

Noun

Meaning

The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.

A barbarous or cruel act.

Barbarism; impurity of speech.

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I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you. Julius Streicher

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence. Peter Wessel Zapffe

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. Arthur Schopenhauer

[T]here was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity. John Buchan

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about. Alfred de Zayas

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. Ellen Key

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