The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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!… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar !… — sidney buchman Copy Share Image
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had.… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if… — Nick Mallett Copy Share Image
“The light of reason and civilization was virtually snuffed out by the Barbarian hordes who swarmed across Europe, annihilating everything the Romans… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful… — Plato Copy Share Image
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become...… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
