Art Quote by Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

— Anonymous

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

— C.P. Cavafy

Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We…

— Marine Le Pen

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

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

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then…

— Robert E. Howard

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

— David Benioff

“Is it necessary to recall that the earth is not infinite, and that our civilization is close to having invaded all of it? The…

— Gabriel Tarde

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

— Robert E. Howard

War,--the trade of barbarians!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very beginnings of…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr