There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon. — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.” — Adrianne Ambrose Copy Share Image
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man… — Thales 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
“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call… — Manda Scott 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
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous 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
when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Friend, we are well met indeed. I think we are a pair of fools and that we should hasten to Nildren's Peak,… — Ian Livingstone 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
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
“You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band… — Glen Cook 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
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They… — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson 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
“Of course, when the barbarians doggedly persist and use the most refined methods to destroy morality, the family, and the mystery, it… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“Entry: Barbary Vikings Where horned Helmets and fur Cloaks; otherwise you could misstake them for Northern Barbarians. They swagger hughly, quarrel hughly,… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon 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
“I do not fear that the barbarians shall invade, but that we should become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Charles MacKenzie 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
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers. — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition. — Kamahl Copy Share Image
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. — Karen Marie Moning 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 these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/edward-gibbon-710_barbarians_but-the-arabs-friendship-was-venal-their_1636211.jpg)
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![“One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different angles: Caliban in Shakespeare's day was probably viewed as a sort of comic, barbarian type, but into the 19th century there were productions where Caliban was the hero…” quote by Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac2/margaret-atwood-40_19th-century_one-of-the-reasons-william-shakespeare-i_412840.jpg)
![“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.” quote by Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d24/susan-sontag-332_barbarians_o-ne-person-s-barbarian-is-another-perso_2038508.jpg)
