the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

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

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

— Andre Braugher

“(First Barbarian): whats the difference between a lord and a barbarian? (second Barbarian): As little as a week!”

— Larry Gonick

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not…

— Thales

“It wasn't too much, to take a frail figure into one's arms for those last moments of life. Better than a cot, or even…

— Steven Erikson

“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love…

— Karen Blixen

“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what…

— Hilaire Belloc

“I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age”

— Adrianne Ambrose

It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians came and…

— Ilkin Santak

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— William Hazlitt

Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions.

— Robert Eggers

“It was as if all my life had been spent fighting, killing and running. I wanted peace but I knew it was unattainable. I…

— Fredrik Nath

“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar ! Rape, murder,…

— sidney buchman

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

— Joseph Conrad