"The English language is like London: proudly barbaric……" — Stephen Fry

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• To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not… — George Carlin
• War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the… — Cindy Sheehan
• It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens.… — Hugh Shelton
• Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore
• We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The death sentence is a barbaric act. — Nelson Mandela
• The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in… — Nelson Mandela
• Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized — Hugh Hammond Bennett
• First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind… — Winston Churchill
• In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of… — Ruth Behar

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