Top 150 Barbarians Quotes & Sayings

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

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

The barbarians come out at night.

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.

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.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

War is the business of barbarians.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

If you believe you are the city on the hill, the world's best hope, it is tempting also to believe that outside your boundaries are barbarians.

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

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

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.

Children are gleeful barbarians.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

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

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

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.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

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

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.

The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time.

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

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers.

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.

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

I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.

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

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.