Age Quote by Roy Fuller

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

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

— C.P. Cavafy

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

— Leonard Woolf

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 Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what…

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Anonymous

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

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire

— Mike Tyson

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

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely acquired the…

— Lord Acton

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

— Robert E. Howard