"The true barbarian is he who thinks everything……" — William Hazlitt
"The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices."
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William Hazlitt
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
— Jack Abramoff
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other…
— Alexander the Great
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on…
— John Shelby Spong
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his…
— Lord Acton
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really…
— William Dean Howells
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
— Garet Garrett
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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the…
— Unknown Author
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Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set…
— Heinrich von Treitschke
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is…
— William Gilmore Simms
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