"It is the decisive people who have become……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians."
More Barbarians Quotes
- Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they… — Isaiah Berlin
- War is the business of barbarians. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. — Jack Abramoff
- Children are gleeful barbarians. — Joe Morgenstern
- Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians. — Pope Urban II
- Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. — Oscar Wilde
- Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the… — Alexander the Great
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- From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish… — Louis Kronenberger
- People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power… — George Lucas
- Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among… — Confucius
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