Barbarians Quotes

133 Barbarians quotes by 119 unique authors

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. — Constantine Peter Cavafy
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should fall… — Joseph Kastein
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because… — Plato
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to… — Noam Chomsky
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and… — Dan Simmons
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated… — William D. Leahy
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. — Garet Garrett
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces… — Bruno Schulz
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… — Unknown Author
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose… — Buenaventura Durruti
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
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the… — Barbara Amiel
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Okakura Kakuzo
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
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...… — Michael Dirda
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
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight — William W. Johnstone

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