Barbarians Quotes - Page 3

There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.

One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.

There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see it everywhere." That's certainly true of documentaries. I wouldn't say it's ubiquitous, but it's become close to ubiquitous. It's everywhere.

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until...until you've had enough.' Ford was running after him. Very very fast. 'And then I will do it again!' yelled Arthur, 'And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!

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.

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.

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.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.