Top 111 Barbarian Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

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

The Barbarian's shoes are Hair Jordans

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

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

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

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

Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world.

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

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

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.

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

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.

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

I use the same big studios that everybody else uses, but my attitude once inside is that of a total barbarian.

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I'm not a barbarian.

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

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

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

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

No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.

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

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

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

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

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

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

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

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

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

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.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

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.

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.

It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.

There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.

The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.

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

We get stereotyped as MMA fighters as being barbarian and trying to hurt people. A lot of us are college-educated, like myself.

Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!

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

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

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).

Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.