"Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty… — Annie Besant
• For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime… — Albert Camus
• The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as… — Amerigo Vespucci
• It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity… — Winston Churchill
• The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am… — Ruben Dario
• Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of… — Rodrigue Tremblay
• Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. — William Shakespeare
• It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors… — Charles Dudley Warner
• As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,… — T.E. Lawrence
• In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long… — Henry George
• During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary — Carl Jung

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