Barbaric Quotes

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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
I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own. — George Carlin
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
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
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore
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.
The death sentence is a barbaric act. — Nelson Mandela
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. — Nelson Mandela
Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized — Hugh Hammond Bennett
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
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
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
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary. — Kate Mulgrew
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
Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature. — Edward Abbey
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
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant. — Ingrid Newkirk
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
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
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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