Quotes and Sayings About Barbarians
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If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
-- Angela Carter -
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
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I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?
-- Brock Lesnar -
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.
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Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
-- Cressida CowellSource : Cressida Cowell (2017). “How To Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons”, p.15, Hachette UK
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This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
-- David BenioffSource : David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin
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The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
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The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
-- Garet Garrett -
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
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If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.
-- Henry Demarest LloydSource : "Wealth Against Commonwealth".
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One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
-- Jack AbramoffSource : "Jack in a Box". Zagorin, A., content.time.com. April 30, 2005.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
-- Jack VanceSource : Jack Vance (1957). “Big Planet”, p.21, Spatterlight Press
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.
-- John MiliusSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
-- Joseph A. SchumpeterSource : "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy". Book by Joseph Schumpeter, Part IV, Chapter XX, Section III, 1942.
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Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
-- Karel Appel -
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.
-- Karl BarthSource : Karl Barth (2005). “God In Action: Theological Addresses”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
-- Leonard WoolfSource : Leonard Woolf (1939). “Barbarians Within and Without”
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The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
-- Marya Mannes -
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
-- Matthew Arnold -
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck -
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Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
-- Okakura Kakuzo