Barbarians Quote by Charles Krauthammer

“Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.”

— Jim Butcher

“You can’t win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave.”

— Jim Butcher

“Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.”

— Robert Jordan

“Politics is the last refuge of a scoundrel'.”

— J.F.R. Jacob

“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.”

— Eishes Chayil

“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.”

— Roland Barthes

“After all, the only thing we have left is friends. You can say that they are the last fortress to be defended.”

— Henning Mankell

“War is very cruel, a predatory jungle, and is never the true path of life.”

— Feng Nong

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to wash in…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing. We lost too…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.”

— Nina Bangs