Barbarism Quote by Ovid Download Open image “Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.” — Ovid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barbarism Genius Gold Monstrous Wealth
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home. — Ovid Copy Share
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism,… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image