Able Quote by Angela Carter Download Open image “If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?” — Angela Carter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Bad thing Bad things Barbarians Blame Destroyed
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd 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
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell 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 small crumb… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer 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
“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” — Cavafy Copy Share Image
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.” — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the window of her eyes… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
