# Quote — Norman Davies, Europe

> There are shades of barbarism in twentieth-century Europe which would once have amazed the most barbarous of barbarians. At a time when the instruments of constructive change had outstripped anything previously known, Europeans acquiesced in a string of conflicts which destroyed more human beings than all past convulsions put together.

- Author: [Norman Davies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-davies.md)
- Book: [Europe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-davies/europe.md)
- Page: 897
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Davies#Europe:_A_History_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-davies/europe/there-are-shades

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