Barbarians Quotes - Page 2

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

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.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

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.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

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.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

The barbarians come out at night.

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

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.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight