Barbarians Quote by Henry Demarest Lloyd

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

— Anonymous

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

— Thomas Sowell

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

— C.P. Cavafy

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

— Dean Koontz

It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians came and…

— Ilkin Santak

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

— Robert E. Howard

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

— David Benioff

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

The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly…

— Charles Darwin

“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.”

— Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

— Mark Twain