Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice… We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians. — Robin Lane Fox 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
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women,… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I ate him," said the homunculus, biting into his sausage. The kids couldn't hide their looks of horror. He smiled, sausage juice… — Pseudonymous Bosch 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
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
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
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name… One of our tribe of… — John Quincy Adams 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
“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
“As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now… — George R. Stewart Copy Share Image
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of… — Ernest Howard Crosby Copy Share Image
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret 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
So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church… — Lewis H. Lapham 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 their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal…” quote by David Lloyd George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/863/david-lloyd-george-9272_age_god-has-chosen-little-nations-as-the-ves_974472.jpg)
