"Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues……" — J M Coetzee

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• As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. — Jack Abramoff
• Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other… — Alexander the Great
• ...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
• The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on… — John Shelby Spong
• Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his… — Lord Acton
• It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really… — William Dean Howells
• There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
• There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
• The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. — Garet Garrett
• In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the… — Unknown Author
• Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set… — Heinrich von Treitschke
• The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is… — William Gilmore Simms

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