Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon. — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
If you believe you are the city on the hill, the world's best hope, it is tempting also to believe that outside… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call… — Manda Scott Copy Share Image
Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in the senate?… — Constantine Cavafy Copy Share Image
“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
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