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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
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except… — Ernest Howard Crosby
I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if he was way… — Unknown Author
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
Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. — William Ralph Inge
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly… — Robert Fisk
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age — Karel Appel
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of… — Mark Twain
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist. — Robert Fisk
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower… — Charles Darwin
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us… — C.S. Lewis
People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers. — Nicole Richie
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations… — Lewis Mumford
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire — Mike Tyson
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. — Baltasar Gracian
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… — Walter Lippmann
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian. — Joseph Conrad
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. — Julius Caesar
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. — Breyten Breytenbach
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. — Andre Braugher

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