Words matter. These are the best Barbarians Quotes from famous people such as Angela Carter, Lake Bell, Barbara Amiel, William Inge, Samuel Gompers, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
I’m organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They’re barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.
War is the business of barbarians.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of ‘Civus romanus sum’ set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. ‘This Side of Paradise’ – that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays – I felt like he’d written the book just for me.
Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time.
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
