quotes 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.
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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.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes -
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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.
-- Jacques Yves Cousteau -
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.
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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 -
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
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There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.
-- Periyar E. V. Ramasamy -
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.
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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
-- Pierre SchaefferSource : "Pierre Schaeffer: an Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete". Records Quarterly magazine, vol. 2, n° 1, 1987.
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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
-- Robert E. HowardSource : Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 1923.
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Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
-- Samuel GompersSource : Samuel Gompers, Stuart Bruce Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Marla J. Hughes, Mary C. Jeske (1991). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: A national labor movement takes shape, 1895-98”, p.48, University of Illinois Press
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”
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There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.
-- Vivian Vande VeldeSource : Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
-- William GodwinSource : William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin”, p.373
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Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight
-- William W. JohnstoneSource : William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone (2014). “A Dangerous Man: A Novel of William "Wild Bill" Longley”, p.210, Pinnacle Books
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Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.
-- Roy FullerSource : Alfred Alvarez, Roy Broadbent Fuller, Anthony Thwaite (1970). “A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite”, Penguin Books Ltd