Barbarian Culture Quotes

#1. You can never destroy the barbarian culture of hatred, violence, and death by killing barbarians. You have to destroy the philosophy that makes them barbarian.

Debasish Mridha

#2. 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

#3. Besides, it left the humans in the Culture free to take care of the things that really mattered in life, such as sports, games, romance, studying dead languages, barbarian societies and impossible problems, and climbing high mountains without the aid of a safety harness.

Iain M. Banks

#4. And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew how to do, it was laugh. My dad called that sort of behavior whistling in the dark.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#6. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .

John Gwynne

#7. 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

#8. People who turn pages with licked fingers are as bad as those who wipe their noses on the able linen

Alan Bradley

#9. Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.

Shannon Sharpe

#10. 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.

Richard M. Weaver

#11. A master has always something to offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own lack of appreciation.

Kakuzo Okakura

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

Baltasar Gracian

#13. [O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Susan Sontag

#14. The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

Sheldon Richman