Respect Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Now, nothing annoys an angry savage or an uneducated person so much as the perfect coolness of a civilized and cultivated man when he…

— Grant Allen

“What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it."…

— Mary Jo Putney

“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love…

— Karen Blixen

“It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.”

— Irwin Shaw

“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”

— Cavafy

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

— Joseph Charles MacKenzie

“And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.”

— C.P. Cavafy

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

— Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie

“Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.”

— Gregory Benford