Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out…

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

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

— Missy Lyons

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Geoff Hoon

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 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

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

— Virginia Woolf

“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

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

Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has…

— Kofi Annan

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

— Ian Somerhalder