Aim Quote by Barbara Amiel

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as…

— Carroll Quigley

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

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

— Edward Gibbon

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

— Barbara Amiel

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

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

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

It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians came and…

— Ilkin Santak

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

— Anonymous

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

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

— Thomas Sowell

The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still…

— Edward Gibbon