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I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.
— John Milius
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
— Tacitus
It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.
— Irwin Shaw
Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.
— Murray Leinster
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
— Mark Twain
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
— Charles Fletcher Dole
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
— Oscar Wilde
These squatters aren't just aliens, drifters and undesirables. They're new world barbarians, conquering free spaces and making them their own.
— James W. Bodden
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
— Thomas Sowell
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
— Baltasar Gracian
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
— Susan Sontag
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
— Pope Urban II
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
— Thomas Sowell
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
— John Stuart Mill
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
— George Lucas
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
— Helen Clark MacInnes
Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever
— Patrick Rothfuss
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
— Joseph Conrad
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce ...
— George Lincoln Rockwell
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.
— Ernest Howard Crosby
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.
— Henry Demarest Lloyd
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
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
— Jack Abramoff
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
— J.M. Coetzee
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.
— Robin Lane Fox
France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.
— Francois Hollande
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.
— Karen Marie Moning
Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.
— Edward Gibbon
They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.
— Vivian Vande Velde
Children are gleeful barbarians.
— Joe Morgenstern
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
Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!
— James Goldman
By Duraden, I have trolls dancing in my head this morning!' Stubble grumbled, screwing his eyes into a squint at the bright morning light.
— Carl Sargent
The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.
— Tzvetan Todorov
The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians
— Stephen Fry
And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution. — Constantine P. Cavafy
They were, those people, a kind of solution. — Constantine P. Cavafy
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
I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.
— Scott Lynch
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
— Thucydides
This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
— David Benioff
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
There's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air - we all feel it - and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming.
— Alessandro Baricco
War is the business of barbarians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
— Constantine P. Cavafy
The barbarians come out at night.
— J.M. Coetzee
Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.
— Peter F. Hamilton
But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.
— Susan Sontag
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.
— Roy Fuller
Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.
— Adrianne Ambrose
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
War,
the trade of barbarians! — Napoleon Bonaparte
the trade of barbarians! — Napoleon Bonaparte
As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.
— Criss Jami
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
— Pierre Schaeffer
The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you
— Christopher Hitchens
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
— Thomas Sowell
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight
— William W. Johnstone
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
— Barbara Amiel
Our age is enlightened ... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians?
— Friedrich Schiller
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
— Angela Carter
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Barbarians!' he roared. 'Filthy barbarians!
— Emily Rodda
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