Quote by Ross Laidlaw

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

— Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie

“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar ! Rape, murder,…

— sidney buchman

“…no greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility…”

— Richard Hakluyt

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

— Joseph Charles MacKenzie

“Some come just to be entertained, trained and externally maintained. The conquered.”

— T.F. Hodge

“...if one civilized man were doomed to pass a dozen years amid a race of intractable savages, unless he had power to improve them,…

— Anne Brontë

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

— Cavafy

“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered.”

— Eric Hoffer

“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

“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at…

— T.K. Naliaka

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

— C.P. Cavafy