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Word can travel fast when it wants to, but the truth? The truth is rarely so reliable. — Brian Wood

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. — Arthur C. Clarke

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood. — John Milius

You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body. — Greg X. Graves

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

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

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.) — Ovid

Her mother had been slightly less diplomatic. To her I'd always be "that nice barbarian boy. — Terry Mancour

When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant. — Andrew Ashling

Every civilisation that disavows its barbarian potential has already capitulated to barbarism. — Slavoj Zizek

I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue. — Patrick Rothfuss

The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I'm a barbarian). — Rick Riordan

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

I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age — Adrianne Ambrose

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

Of course, once you had yanked Conan the Barbarian's sword out of a book to fight off a rabid weresquirrel, "impossible" lost a lot of its punch. — Jim C. Hines

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

So, Maximus the Fellatio Trainer - how does your prick feel about scratchy barbarian beards?"

Lucius Petronius — J.P. Kenwood

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

To realise the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian. — Isaiah Berlin

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian. — Joseph Conrad

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. — George Bernard Shaw

He smiled his barbarian's smile. "Keep looking at me like that, Emmie love, and I will be bothering you again in a trice. — Grace Burrowes

It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded — Stanislaw Lem

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. — Richard Dawkins

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls. — Heraclitus

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

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

As Conan the Barbarian famously said, That which does not kill us does not kill us. — Ben Aaronovitch

Once a barbarian princess, always a barbarian princess. — Allan Frewin Jones

I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great leader. — Fredrik Nath

Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product. — Nicole Fende

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

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals. — Geoff Butler

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. — Pat Conroy

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

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. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Can one be both barbarian of the soul and sophisticated of the mind? — Anne Perry

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

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age — Karel Appel

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

Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe - I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle. — Ernest Cline

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

Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian - that is, a creature acting by instinct. — Gustave Le Bon

David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks. — Dorothea Benton Frank

Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading. — Terry Pratchett

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(First Barbarian): whats the difference between a lord and a barbarian?
(second Barbarian): As little as a week! — Larry Gonick

Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love- Morgan Freeman — Morgan Freeman

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

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

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. — Maurice De Vlaminck

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

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. — Julius Caesar

For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm. — John Milius

I'm not a barbarian. — Jason Momoa

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire — Mike Tyson

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

In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure. — A. J. Gallant

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian. — Jack Vance

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian. — M.F. Moonzajer

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace. — Criss Jami

When night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable — Thucydides

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. — William Gilmore Simms

All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

The veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin — Karin Tansek

The Barbarian's shoes are Hair Jordans — Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips. — Terry Pratchett

Ne has to be a mindless barbarian to burn such beauty in a stove, to destroy what we can not create.. — Anton Chekhov

I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know? — Brock Lesnar

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