Barbarians Quote by Carroll Quigley

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to…

— Barbara Amiel

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

Empire in the past was always a far harsher and much more accident-prone business than conventional history books imply. And the costs of these…

— Linda Colley

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

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

— C.P. Cavafy

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going,…

— Isaiah Berlin

Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian…

— Heinrich von Treitschke

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control…

— Edward Said

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

— Philip K. Dick

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not…

— Alexander the Great