Barbarians Quotes

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.

I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

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.

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.

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.

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.

When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

War is the business of barbarians.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

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.

Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if it were a mere stopover for refueling, or even worse, characterize us as barbarians who would ransack their own home.

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.

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.

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.