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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. -- Pierre Schaeffer
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? -- Angela Carter
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. -- Matthew Arnold
War is the business of barbarians. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. -- Barbara Amiel
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. -- Thomas Sowell
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. -- Thomas Sowell
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. -- Garrison Keillor
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. -- Barbara Amiel
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. -- Isaiah Berlin
The barbarians come out at night. -- J. M. Coetzee
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. -- William Ralph Inge
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. -- Sinclair Lewis
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians -- Edward Albee
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money -- Samuel Gompers
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. -- Andre Braugher
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. -- Leonard Woolf
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. -- C.P. Cavafy
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
Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. -- Edward Gibbon
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
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
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
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. -- Dan Simmons
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise. -- Origen
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians. -- Edward Gibbon
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion and their eloquence for their own sufferings, when the provinces were invaded and desolated by the arms of the successful Barbarians. -- Edward Gibbon
The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives. -- Edward Gibbon
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
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce. -- Plato
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. -- William Ralph Inge
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. -- Samuel Gompers
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? -- Thomas Sowell
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. -- Walter Kohn
Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to. -- Noam Chomsky
I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance. -- Tracy Hickman
I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me. -- Ron Carlson
The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today's standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in 'barbarians' from the steppe. -- Amy Chua
Children are gleeful barbarians. -- Joe Morgenstern
War,--the trade of barbarians! -- Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the business of barbarians -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized -- Dean Inge
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight -- William W. Johnstone
People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers. -- Nicole Richie
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians. -- Pope Urban II
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. -- C.P. Cavafy
This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human. -- David Benioff
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. -- John Stuart Mill
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians. -- Charles Fletcher Dole
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. -- Oscar Wilde
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. -- Henry Demarest Lloyd
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. -- Karen Marie Moning
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes." -- Karen Marie Moning
the Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear. -- Thucydides
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians. -- Robin Lane Fox
The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians -- Stephen Fry
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them. -- Murray Leinster
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians. -- Tacitus
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
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. -- George Lucas
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians. -- Roy Fuller
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. -- Carroll Quigley
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
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce... -- George Lincoln Rockwell
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. -- Vivian Vande Velde
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. -- Ernest Howard Crosby
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because theyâ??ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday -- Cassandra Clare
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. -- Barbara Tuchman
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. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything. -- Karl Marx
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. -- Marco Rubio
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. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians. -- Jeb Bush
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them. -- Walter Savage Landor
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians. -- Bertolt Brecht
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians. -- Eric Corley
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people. -- Mark Twain

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