Barbarians Quotations

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

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.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

We all believe there's more to come from the Scotland team and this season should be a start that we have to build on beginning with our game against the Barbarians at the end of May and then the tour of South Africa.

We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

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.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

The barbarians come out at night.

So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)

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.

Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, far more sophisticated than the Russians.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

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.

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.

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

the Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

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?

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until...until you've had enough.' Ford was running after him. Very very fast. 'And then I will do it again!' yelled Arthur, 'And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...

War is the business of barbarians.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.