Barbarians Quotes

133 quotes by 121 authors

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether… — Isaiah Berlin
War is the business of barbarians. — Napoleon Bonaparte
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. — Jack Abramoff
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children are gleeful barbarians. — Joe Morgenstern
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians. — Pope Urban II
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. — Oscar Wilde
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the… — Alexander the Great
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
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.… — Louis Kronenberger
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas
Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are… — Confucius
...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
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
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
We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is… — Guillaume Faye
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient… — Charles Krauthammer
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? — Angela Carter
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

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