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We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch. -- Neil LaBute
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. -- Brigitte Bardot
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. -- George Santayana
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. -- William Hazlitt
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. -- Jose Rizal
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue. -- Ethan Allen
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. -- Daniel Defoe
A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape. -- Louis MacNeice
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. -- June Jordan
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. -- Robert Dale Owen
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. -- Albert Camus
Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house. -- George Edward Woodberry
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization? -- William Wilberforce
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity. -- Annie Besant
Euclid for children is barbarous. -- Oliver Heaviside
America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. -- Herman Melville
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. -- John Maynard Keynes
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent. -- Freeman Dyson
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow. -- Arthur Rimbaud
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. -- Herman Melville
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples. -- James M. Barrie
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory -- Victor Hugo
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. -- William Shakespeare
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world -- Stendhal
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age -- Karel Appel
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. -- Saint Patrick
One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'... -- Cassandra Clare
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed. -- Denis Diderot
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. -- Guy de Maupassant
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary -- Carl Jung
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too -- Alexander Cockburn
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same. -- George Galloway
Together, leading the world, the U.S.A. will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS. -- Bernie Sanders
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art. -- Baltasar Gracian
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. -- Edward Gibbon
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please -- Amerigo Vespucci
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon. -- Matsuo Basho
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another. -- John Dryden
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom! -- Anton Chekhov
As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel. -- T. E. Lawrence
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. -- Herman Melville
Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason. -- Philip Sidney
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage. -- Denis Diderot
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past. -- Leo Rosten
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms. -- Jonathan Swift
Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices. -- Rodrigue Tremblay
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances. -- Walter Bagehot
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority. -- Francis Atterbury
But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God. -- John Calvin
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. -- Herman Melville
I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people. -- Culbert Olson
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress. -- Murray Bookchin
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule. -- Leo Tolstoy
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands. -- Francis Galton
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies? -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror... -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography. -- Oscar Wilde
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs. -- John Milton
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again. -- PZ Myers
It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition. -- Barack Obama
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
But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on. -- Lord Byron
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. -- Ambrose Bierce
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed. -- Michelangelo

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