Barbarians Quotes

The barbarians come out at night.

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers.

There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

Children are gleeful barbarians.

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.

Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday

So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

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 and proclaim ourselves civilized.

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.

Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.

Schmerz ist Wahrheit