The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar !… — sidney buchman 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
“We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the… — Louis Kronenberger 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
You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped!… — Douglas Adams 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
This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human. — David Benioff 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
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.” — Ross Laidlaw Copy Share Image
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is always the Germans who cause the trouble, what is it about Germans that they must molest and oppress?..." "They have… — Elswyth Thane Copy Share Image
Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
![“Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio…” quote by Edwin O. Reischauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d32/edwin-o-reischauer-77819_barbarians_absolutely-delightful-at-first-for-its-u_3040751.jpg)
