Barbarous Quotes

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It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh… — Tom Regan
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of… — Ambrose Bierce
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying,… — June Jordan
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man… — Thomas Jefferson
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
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if… — David Hume
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,… — Bertrand Russell
And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every… — Peter Damian
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of… — John Brown
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world — Stendhal
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. — John Maynard Keynes
How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests!Â Yet, in a sense, this is… — Marcus Aurelius
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than… — Michelangelo
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same. — George Galloway
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations… — Murray Bookchin
I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in… — Saint Patrick
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that… — Francis Galton
I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in… — Friedrich Kellner
I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or… — Hugo Grotius
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too — Alexander Cockburn

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