Barbarians Quote by C.P. Cavafy Download Open image “What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” — C.P. Cavafy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barbarians Barbarians People Kind Kind Solution Kindness People People Kind Shall Barbarians Solutions
“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” — Cavafy 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
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
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“The god abandons Antony When at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passing with exquisite music, with voices ― Do… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was. An obstacle was there that changed… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“ Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops,… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“He said he'd hurt himself against a wall or had fallen down. But there was probably some other reason for the wounded, the bandaged… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing… — J. William Fulbright 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
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf.… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before."… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
