Overall, vampires are a much more refined people…

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

— Edward Albee

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

— Richard M. Weaver

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality…

— Fernando Pessoa

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization…

— Will Durant

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:…

— Edward Gibbon

Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before."…

— James Clavell

The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a…

— Rick Riordan

I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can…

— Marco Rubio

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf.…

— Maurice Saatchi

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

— Andre Braugher

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that…

— Jeb Bush

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from…

— Anonymous

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

— Anonymous

One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing…

— J. William Fulbright

“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”

— Charles Krauthammer