Barbarians Quotes

War,--the trade of barbarians!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

— Joseph Conrad

Children are gleeful barbarians.

— Joe Morgenstern

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

— Robert Christgau

The barbarians come out at night.

— J. M. Coetzee

The Barbarian's shoes are Hair Jordans

— Bobby H. Barbee, Sr

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.

— John Milius

War is the business of barbarians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

“The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians”

— stephen fry

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

— Robert Fisk

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Our age is enlightened... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians?”

— Friedrich von Schiller

“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”

— Cavafy

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Let the barbarians burn the library, the ideas are what's important.”

— Marc Read

“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.”

— Ross Laidlaw

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent…

— Fernando Pessoa

No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to…

— Richard Hakluyt

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

They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the…

— Vivian Vande Velde

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies…

— Marco Rubio

Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion…

— Pankaj Mishra

How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been…

— Gerald Heaney

Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark…

— Heinrich von Treitschke

People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend…

— Baron d'Holbach

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…

— Edward Gibbon

How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians…

— Polybius

“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more…

— R.A. Lafferty

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and…

— Victor Hugo

Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle,…

— Herbert Spencer

“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of…

— William J Federer

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

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

“What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in the senate?…

— Constantine Cavafy

We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the…

— Buenaventura Durruti