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
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
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
Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more… — Mario Vargas Llosa 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
“The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians” — stephen fry 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
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
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
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but… — Aristotle 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
“Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part,… — Jiang Rong 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
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
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
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians. — Charles Fletcher Dole Copy Share Image
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them. — Murray Leinster Copy Share Image
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