Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous. — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“I do not fear that the barbarians shall invade, but that we should become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Charles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bluebell, you couldn’t take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back.” “Bluebell?” Illium narrowed his eyes.… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to… — Richard Hakluyt Copy Share Image
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy 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
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only… — Roy Fuller Copy Share Image
The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if… — Paul J. Crutzen Copy Share Image
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The whole of Hellas used once to carry arms, their habitations being unprotected and their communication with each other unsafe; indeed, to… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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