Barbarians Quote by Charles Darwin

“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what…

— Hilaire Belloc

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

— Baltasar Gracian

“...if one civilized man were doomed to pass a dozen years amid a race of intractable savages, unless he had power to improve them,…

— Anne Brontë

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle,…

— John Quincy Adams

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians”

— stephen fry

“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was founded in…

— Eileen Power

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going,…

— Isaiah Berlin

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

— Robert E. Howard

“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.”

— Ross Laidlaw

“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love…

— Karen Blixen