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  • The Barbarian's shoes are Hair Jordans -- Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.
  • Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. -- Bertrand De Jouvenel
  • If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. -- Andre Braugher
  • Bluebell, you couldn't take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back." "Bluebell?" Illium narrowed his eyes. "That's it, Barbarian. -- Nalini Singh
  • Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission. -- Piers Anthony
  • We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. -- Bertrand De Jouvenel
  • We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns." -- Bertrand De Jouvenel
  • Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • I'm not a barbarian. -- Megyn Kelly
  • I'm not a barbarian. -- Megyn Kelly
  • The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. -- Sinclair Lewis
  • Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. -- Leonard Woolf
  • The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. -- William Hazlitt
  • As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. -- Jack Abramoff
  • A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. -- Richard Dawkins
  • The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. -- William Gilmore Simms
  • As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian. -- Octavio Paz
  • The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. -- Breyten Breytenbach
  • There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian. -- Thales
  • If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. -- Simon Conway Morris
  • America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian. -- Maurice Saatchi
  • I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • I'm the barbarian of Hollywood. -- John Milius
  • A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded. -- Stanislaw Lem
  • A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian. -- Jack Vance
  • To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian. -- Joseph Conrad
  • Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition. -- Kamahl
  • If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age -- Karel Appel
  • And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy. -- Helen Clark MacInnes
  • Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. -- Baltasar Gracian
  • It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • [O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. -- Susan Sontag
  • Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous. -- Josh Hutcherson
  • The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. -- Garet Garrett
  • I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know? -- Brock Lesnar
  • There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon. -- Vivian Vande Velde
  • Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama's empire is called a terrorist. -- Robert Fisk
  • I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. -- Julius Caesar
  • That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. -- Olaf Stapledon
  • To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. -- William Godwin
  • Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. -- Mark Twain
  • So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body. -- Greg X. Graves
  • My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. -- Pat Conroy
  • [H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product. -- Nicole Fende
  • Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. -- J. M. Coetzee
  • They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture. -- Cressida Cowell
  • He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals. -- Geoff Butler
  • I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire -- Mike Tyson
  • The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite. -- Richard M. Weaver
  • 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. -- Bertrand Russell
  • The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I'm a barbarian). -- Rick Riordan
  • when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable -- Thucydides
  • There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
  • Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian. -- Alfred Richard Orage
  • I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one. -- Maurice de Vlaminck
  • The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life. -- Marya Mannes
  • The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed. -- John Shelby Spong
  • Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • 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... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend. -- J. William Fulbright
  • There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
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