A modern and humane civilization must control conception…

“When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural…

— Charles Edwin Winter

Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football.…

— Ralph Wiley

We are going to be able to defeat ISIS on the ground there, as well as in this world, because of the Muslim Americans…

— Martin O'Malley

“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

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, &…

— Virginia Woolf

In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity:…

— Juan Gines de Sepulveda

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

— Brian Bosworth

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

— Geoff Hoon

Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs…

— Steve Allen

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to…

— L. Neil Smith

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

— Robert Graves

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue…

— Earl Blumenauer

“Barbaric is letting the woman suffer to be alone for the rest of her life.”

— Missy Lyons

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to…

— Sugar Ray Robinson