Famous Quotes | Each person calls barbarism...

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rules of reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Of Cannibals,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 31, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).

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