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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. — Barbara Amiel
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is… — Will Durant
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small… — H. L. Mencken
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the… — Arthur Koestler
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a… — Maurice de Vlaminck
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. — Olaf Stapledon
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. — Matthew Arnold
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade and even the… — Robert E. Howard
Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary… — Edwin O. Reischauer
Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition. — Kamahl
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by… — John Quincy Adams
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. — William Hazlitt
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. — Garrison Keillor
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. — Sinclair Lewis
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. — Thomas Sowell
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? — Thomas Sowell
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same… — Neal A. Maxwell
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I… — Orson Scott Card
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian,… — Vera Nazarian
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be… — Bertolt Brecht
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag

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