Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
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
Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man… — Thales Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“Barbarian Horde This will be lot and lots of wild-screaming people advancing under a cloud of dust in order to devestate more… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call… — Manda Scott 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
“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 most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to… — Amy Chua 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
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
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
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians. — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice… We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To make life safe for all of our citizens, we must also address the growing threats we face from outside the country.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To the Greeks [the Macedonians] were uncouth, semi-civilized barbarians. The Macedonians for their part despised the Greeks as effete, wishy-washy Greeklings. Both… — Nicholas Sekunda Copy Share Image
If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“The whole of Hellas used once to carry arms, their habitations being unprotected and their communication with each other unsafe; indeed, to… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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