Barbaric Quotes

85 quotes by 78 authors

We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for… — William Butler Yeats
People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or… — P. C. Cast
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about… — Mike Lee
When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of… — Tom Conti
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far. — Abel Ferrara
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where… — Gregory A. Boyd
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human… — Gore Vidal
Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but… — Karl Marx
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. — Denis Diderot
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. — Christopher Hitchens
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they… — Ellen Key
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. — Nelson Mandela
I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved… — Susan Orlean
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing… — Jerry Saltz
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world. — Walt Whitman
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor Adorno
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English… — Robert A. Heinlein
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
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. — Walt Whitman

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