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Quotes from Barbarians Within and Without — Leonard Woolf

1880–1969 England

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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to be or remain a civilized man.

Barbarians Within and Without (1939)

The more complicated the life of a community or the more "advanced" the civilization, the more complicated, incessant, and severe becomes the control of instincts which is demanded from the individual.

Barbarians Within and Without (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leonard Woolf (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.