“Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!” — James Goldman Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.” — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“One thing he had learned in this life—there were always barbarians at both sides of the gate. He” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of… — Robert E. Howard 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
If you believe you are the city on the hill, the world's best hope, it is tempting also to believe that outside… — Linda Colley 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
Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“By Duraden, I have trolls dancing in my head this morning!' Stubble grumbled, screwing his eyes into a squint at the bright… — Carl Sargent Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard… — Adolf Hitler 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
I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“It would have been reasonable for Hayward to stand aside and watch with a smile while the barbarians slaughtered one another. It… — William Somerset Maugham 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
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a… — Simon Conway Morris 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
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was… — Eileen Power 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
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name… One of our tribe of… — John Quincy Adams 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
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now… — George R. Stewart Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, Prince Edvard. You had a wonderful civilization here on Marduk. You could have made almost anything of it. But it's… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of… — Ernest Howard Crosby Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I ate him," said the homunculus, biting into his sausage. The kids couldn't hide their looks of horror. He smiled, sausage juice… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
