Barbarism is not a picturesque myth or a half-forgotten memory of a long-passed stage of history, but an ugly underlying reality that may erupt with shattering force whenever the moral authority of a civilization is lost.
Christopher Dawson
(Ok, so it's a bit long for a proverb, I admit...)
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