Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill 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
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. — Andre Braugher 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
So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell 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
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians. — Tacitus 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
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
American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money. — Ludwig von Mises 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
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid 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
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
“It would have been reasonable for Hayward to stand aside and watch with a smile while the barbarians slaughtered one another. It… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and… — Alexander the Great 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
Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn’t the fact that they were primitive —… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson 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
“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's… — Erwin McManus 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
“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
“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
Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord…In the royal city of the… — Pope Pius II Copy Share Image
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd Copy Share Image
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Our age is enlightened... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians?” — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” — Cavafy Copy Share Image
