Barbarians Quote by Heinrich von Treitschke

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as…

— Carroll Quigley

“One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of…

— Jane Sherron De Hart

“When the [colonial] contact was violent, in fact, failure was more frequent than success. 'Colonialism' may have triumphed in the past: but today it…

— Fernand Braudel

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of…

— Mercy Otis Warren

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

No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when…

— Leon Pinsker

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

— C.P. Cavafy

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on…

— Niall Ferguson

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British…

— Winston Churchill

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than these -…

— Tacitus