Barbarous Quotes

103 Barbarous quotes by 87 unique authors

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we… — Michel de Montaigne
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.â€ â€œI get it, Swopes. Heâ€™s not the… — Darynda Jones
I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow. — Arthur Rimbaud
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples. — James M. Barrie
One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'... — Cassandra Clare
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. — Henry David Thoreau
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease,… — Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by… — Leo Tolstoy
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to… — John Milton
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and… — Clarence Darrow
Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a… — George Edward Woodberry
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent,… — William Wilberforce
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. — Jose Rizal
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and… — Ethan Allen
The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age. — Robert Green Ingersoll
CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its… — Ambrose Bierce

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