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
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
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
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
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. — Bertrand de Jouvenel 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
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 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
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
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
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
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. — Arthur C. Clarke 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
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
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
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