Barbaric Quotes
85 quotes by 78 authors
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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.
— George Carlin
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War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly…
— Cindy Sheehan
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It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are…
— Hugh Shelton
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Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
— Mary Tyler Moore
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We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The death sentence is a barbaric act.
— Nelson Mandela
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The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.
— Nelson Mandela
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Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized
— Hugh Hammond Bennett
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First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them…
— Winston Churchill
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots…
— Ruth Behar
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
— Kate Mulgrew
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Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
— Edward Abbey
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The magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists believed…
— Nonie Darwish
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Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them…
— Thomas S. Monson
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