Barbarism Quote by Rudyard Kipling Download Open image ““Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.”” — Rudyard Kipling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barbarism Civilization
“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.” — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“I do not fear that the barbarians shall invade, but that we should become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Charles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” — Cavafy Copy Share Image
“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe out the… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. I'm your Rome, you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call us barbarians. - Longinus Sdapeze” — Manda Scott Copy Share
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste;… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and even more,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit of his best as a rule. Bad work does not matter, because other men do worse, and incompetents hang on longer in India than anywhere else. Amusements do not matter, because you must repeat them as soon as you… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
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