It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians. — Charles Fletcher Dole Copy Share Image
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous. — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to… — Richard Hakluyt Copy Share Image
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They… — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians… — Polybius Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“With that kill, the watching crowd realized this wasn’t just a show designed to inflate auction prices, and they howled for more… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not fear that the barbarians shall invade, but that we should become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Charles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.” — Adrianne Ambrose Copy Share Image
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