Barbaric Quotes

85 quotes by 78 authors

One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.… — William J. Brennan
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry
In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine. — Geoff Hoon
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently… — H. L. Mencken
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice — Beryl Markham
Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the… — Genghis Khan
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp. — Brian Bosworth
The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind… — Mark Foley
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central… — Robert Graves
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. — Ai Weiwei
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and… — Theodore Dalrymple
Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be. — Julie Powell
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight. — Sugar Ray Robinson
To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric. — Danny Sugerman
Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield… — Virginia Woolf
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of â€˜powerâ€™ over other species. — Ian Somerhalder
Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended.… — Kofi Annan
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward… — Richard Dawkins
The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world. — Spencer Bachus

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