Barbarian Quotes

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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. — Jack Abramoff
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can… — Alexander the Great
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and… — John Shelby Spong
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all… — Lord Acton
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. — Garet Garrett
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the… — Bryan Ward-Perkins
Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands… — Heinrich von Treitschke
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. — William Gilmore Simms
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and… — Jean Shepherd
I'm the barbarian of Hollywood. — John Milius
Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed… — Robert Green Ingersoll
If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape got caught on… — Jack Handey
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant… — Richard Hakluyt
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 into… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture. — Cressida Cowell
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of… — Simon Conway Morris

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