Barbarians Quotes
133 quotes by 121 authors
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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
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War is the business of barbarians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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
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Children are gleeful barbarians.
— Joe Morgenstern
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Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
— Pope Urban II
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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
— George Lucas
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
— Angela Carter
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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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