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Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Barbaric is letting the woman suffer to be alone for the rest of her life. -- Missy Lyons
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary. -- Kate Mulgrew
The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind. -- Merab Mamardashvili
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. -- Denis Diderot
The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world. -- Spencer Bachus
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity. -- Clark M. Clifford
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far. -- Abel Ferrara
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past. -- Sushmita Banerjee
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. -- Christopher Hitchens
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. -- Nelson Mandela
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp. -- Brian Bosworth
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. -- Steve Earle
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war. -- Monica Crowley
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. -- Ellen Key
Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting. -- Earl Blumenauer
We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well! -- Hayden Panettiere
When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric. -- Tom Conti
It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case. -- Hugh Shelton
The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror. -- Mark Foley
I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you. -- Troy Polamalu
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power. -- Jerry Saltz
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war. -- Mike Lee
I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever. -- Susan Orlean
I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now? -- Malala Yousafzai
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet. -- Greg Graffin
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. -- Carlos Fuentes
The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel! -- Yahya Jammeh
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. -- Theodor Adorno
The death sentence is a barbaric act. -- Nelson Mandela
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world. -- Walt Whitman
History is barbaric to me because it omits all traces of the personal. -- Marty Rubin
Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. -- Ai Weiwei
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. -- Ai Weiwei
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. -- Mary Tyler Moore
In the times of barbaric wars; Love is the most beautiful sacrifice of the world. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. -- Marie Stopes
Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings. -- Mengistu Haile Mariam
Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized -- Hugh Hammond Bennett
Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature. -- Edward Abbey
To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric. -- Danny Sugerman
In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine. -- Geoff Hoon
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. -- Nelson Mandela
Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be. -- Julie Powell
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. -- Stephen Fry
Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time. -- John Green
I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own. -- George Carlin
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice -- Beryl Markham
Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture. -- Seth D.
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. -- Walt Whitman
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. -- Walt Whitman
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end. -- Charles Baudelaire
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of "?power' over other species. -- Ian Somerhalder
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything...it amounts to...a gross violation of human liberty. -- Tibor R. Machan
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight. -- Sugar Ray Robinson
Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Women's loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind -- Waris Dirie
Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS. -- Hillary Clinton
Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment. -- Antoinette Bosco
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry. -- Robinson Jeffers
[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization. -- Jeb Bush
One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies -- Bruce Kent
I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit. -- Jeremy Clarkson
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
We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist terrorist group. -- Hillary Clinton
Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself. -- Ralph Wiley
Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. -- Virginia Woolf
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man. -- Theodore Dalrymple
Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely

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