Barbarians Quote by Thomas Sowell

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

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

— Anonymous

War is the business of barbarians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Robert E. Howard

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

“It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.”

— Irwin Shaw

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

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

— C.P. Cavafy

Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

— Pope Urban II

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

— David Benioff

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory…

— Dan Simmons

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

— Joseph Charles MacKenzie