Barbarous Quotes

103 Barbarous quotes by 87 unique authors

Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized… — William Wilberforce
It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be… — Bartolome de las Casas
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look… — Arthur Schopenhauer
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate… — William Godwin
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:… — William Strunk, Jr.
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal… — Albert Bushnell Hart
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age — Karel Appel
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from,… — Clarence Darrow
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. — Brigitte Bardot
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy de Maupassant
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief;… — Thomas Huxley
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is… — Marquis de Sade
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more… — William Borah
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. — Saint Patrick
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating… — Benjamin Martin
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The… — Thomas Carlyle
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an… — Virginia Woolf
I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as… — Albert Einstein

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