Barbarians Quote by Anonymous

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

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

— C.P. Cavafy

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

— Thomas Sowell

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

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

— David Benioff

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

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to…

— Bertolt Brecht

War is the business of barbarians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

— Leonard Woolf