(1) And yes, sometimes you fight to give people freedom only to discover that the people choose not to choose, or that they choose barbarism to civilization.(2) the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism(3) This means that Australians are fighting with and in support of troops who routinely commit what we rightly regard as atrocities - acts of barbarism which are war crimes under Australian law.(4) she called the execution an act of barbarism(5) During medieval times acts of barbarism were accepted.(6) And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.(7) But history was not done with Mianshan, and in 1940 the mountain was to suffer another act of barbarism .(8) As a British Muslim I condemn this act of barbarism - it is wholly anti-Islamic.(9) In the play's opposition of civilization and barbarism , Shakespeare tends to identify with the outsiders - and thus with the charges Voltaire was to level against him.(10) This case is the epitome of the brutality, the barbarism , and the cruelty of state regulated nonviolent behavior.(11) For a 15-year-old, it was - to use a modern barbarism - totally incredible.(12) The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism , cruelty and hatred.(13) Each viewed his trial as a pivot on a line in history dividing barbarism from civilization.(14) I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty.(15) FROM 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power, till the death of Nazism in 1945, Germans unleashed a reign of terror, cruelty and barbarism hitherto unknown in the history of mankind.(16) In fact, their absence would reduce us to barbarism and utter poverty.