Barbarians Quote by Anonymous

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

— Ross Laidlaw

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

— C.P. Cavafy

“I do not fear that the barbarians shall invade, but that we should become barbarians before they do.”

— Joseph Charles MacKenzie

“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.”

— Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie

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

— Cavafy

“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar ! Rape, murder,…

— sidney buchman

War,--the trade of barbarians!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.”

— C.P. Cavafy

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

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

— Robert Harris

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

— Anonymous