Top 100 Barbarian Quotes
#1. Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
Heraclitus
#2. 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
#3. If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
Simon Conway Morris
#4. The savagery of the picture strange and alluring, Frank smeared with blood and absolutely at ease. Barbarian, primitive, visceral; if Tony had been given to myth-making, he would have wondered if there could be any more frightening god than one who was simultaneously provider and destroyer.
Aleksandr Voinov
#5. The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
#6. The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
Sinclair Lewis
#7. The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
William Gilmore Simms
#8. A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name ... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity ... he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.
John Quincy Adams
#9. It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
Arthur C. Clarke
#10. He was aware, as he did so, of a poignant air of tragic dedication in all his actions, the dutiful routines of a doomed picket manning his lonely watch, as, beyond the next range of hills, the barbarian horde mounted its conquering ponies.
Michael Chabon
#11. Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.
Nicole Fende
#13. After twelve centuries, a little hope had come into the world - and then came an illiterate prince to ride roughshod over it with a barbarian horde and...
Walter M. Miller
#14. How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!
William Shakespeare
#16. They might play Extinctathon, or one of the others. Three-Dimensional Waco, Barbarian Stomp, Kwiktime Osama. They all used parallel strategies: you had to see where you were headed before you got there, but
Margaret Atwood
#17. 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
#18. 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
Thucydides
#19. I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?
Brock Lesnar
#20. Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)
Ovid
#21. It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter.
Plutarch
#22. He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.
Geoff Butler
#23. Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian - that is, a creature acting by instinct.
Gustave Le Bon
#25. A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
Richard Dawkins
#26. Why should we expect her to be exactly like ourselves?" Lucia went on. "How can we be sure that our way is better than any other"
from "A Fair Barbarian
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#27. Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
Alexander The Great
#28. 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.
Paul The Apostle
#29. It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded
Stanislaw Lem
#30. I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
Julius Caesar
#31. 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
#32. What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.
M.F. Moonzajer
#33. 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
Mike Tyson
#34. If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
Karel Appel
#35. What resists phenomenology within us--natural being, the 'barbarian' source Schelling spoke of--cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which is not simply the factual absence of future light.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#36. It's not naive to trust your family.'
'I promise you, it is,' said Laurent. 'But I wonder, is it less naive than the moments when I find myself trusting a stranger, my barbarian enemy, whom I do not treat gently.
C.S. Pacat
#37. You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.
Greg X. Graves
#38. A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
Jack Vance
#39. Abby Von Normal - And I'm like, Don't change the subject, Kung Pao, what I want to know is if you're ready to spend some up-close and personal time with ninety pounds of barbarian woman-flesh! Sorry, I don't know how much that is in kilos.
Christopher Moore
#40. Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands and those who fail to participate in this great rivalry will play a pitiable role in time to come.
Heinrich Von Treitschke
#41. Annabeth turned the blade of her drakon-bone sword, which Percy had to admit made her look pretty intimidating and hot in a "Barbarian Princess" kind of way. "So I guess your Death Mist is pretty useless, then," she said. The goddess bared her broken
Rick Riordan
#42. Don't you 'baby' me, you backwoods barbarian. I'm not settling for bringing you pie and beer for the rest of my life. I have plans. They don't include marriage to you.
Virginia Nelson
#43. 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
#44. And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
Helen Clark MacInnes
#45. To realise the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.
Isaiah Berlin
#46. Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading.
Terry Pratchett
#47. Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
J.M. Coetzee
#48. Gods, Annwyl. What's wrong?" Morfyd demanded.
Green eyes turned to them and Annwyl sneered, "Nothing. I just wanted the two of you to shut up. You're going to make us look bad in front of the barbarian!
G.A. Aiken
#49. 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 ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. In private I observed that once in every generation, without fail, there is an episode of hysteria about the barbarians ... These dreams are the consequence of too much ease. Show me the barbarian army and I will believe.
J.M. Coetzee
#52. Can one be both barbarian of the soul and sophisticated of the mind?
Anne Perry
#53. 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
#54. Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
Mark Twain
#55. The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place.
Karen Blixen
#56. How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#57. So, you're the infamous Acheron."
A smile played across his devastatingly handsome face. "Lord and master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
#60. Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.
Kamahl
#61. 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.
Richard Hakluyt
#62. 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).
Rick Riordan
#63. Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#64. (First Barbarian): whats the difference between a lord and a barbarian?
(second Barbarian): As little as a week!
Larry Gonick
#65. To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
Joseph Conrad
#66. As Conan the Barbarian famously said, That which does not kill us does not kill us.
Ben Aaronovitch
#67. Every civilisation that disavows its barbarian potential has already capitulated to barbarism.
Slavoj Zizek
#68. 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.
Marya Mannes
#69. i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail the flows of life, poets pelting the halting barriers which strangle everyone everywhere.
Peter Standish Evans
#70. I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.
Patrick Rothfuss
#71. She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the street through the increasingly terrible rain, trying to get some distance between us and the robot. "Unhand me," Sophie muttered, dazed. "I'm not some damsel from your barbarian lands.
Brandon Sanderson
#72. 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 ...
Ouida
#73. David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#74. If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.
Edward Gibbon
#75. In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thought. They're so graceful and polite. And I - the white barbarian. It is true.
Philip K. Dick
#76. He smiled his barbarian's smile. "Keep looking at me like that, Emmie love, and I will be bothering you again in a trice.
Grace Burrowes
#77. Blessings of battle-luck and might, confounded enemies and inevitable victory." That sounded familiar. "To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women," I quoted. She seemed like a Conan the Barbarian kind of girl.
E. William Brown
#78. As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
Jack Abramoff
#79. So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda)
Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#80. Ne has to be a mindless barbarian to burn such beauty in a stove, to destroy what we can not create..
Anton Chekhov
#81. The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
Garet Garrett
#82. There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#83. Of course, once you had yanked Conan the Barbarian's sword out of a book to fight off a rabid weresquirrel, "impossible" lost a lot of its punch.
Jim C. Hines
#84. My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
Pat Conroy
#85. These invincible barbarian warriors committed acts of untold cruelty upon the unsuspecting citizenry, slaughtering all those before them in a frenzy of blood and fire and then drinking their chocolate milk right out of the carton.
Ben Thompson
#86. My honourable barbarian. I wouldn't have picked that as your type.' 'Type?' 'A pretty face, a devious mind and a ruthless nature.' 'No. That isn't - I didn't know she was . . . I didn't know what she was.' 'Didn't you?' said Laurent. 'Perhaps I . . . I knew she was ruled by her mind, not her heart.
C.S. Pacat
#87. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#88. Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
Lord Acton
#89. 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
#90. 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!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing.
We lost too many but not enough, the transformation from barbarian society to a human didn't complete yet.
M.F. Moonzajer
#92. If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
Andre Braugher
#93. 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.
Piers Anthony
#94. Balkanization.. had come to denote the parcelization of large & viable political units but also had become a synonym for a reversion to the tribal, the backward, the primitive, the barbarian.
Maria N. Todorova
#95. One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
J. William Fulbright
#96. Do you ever read the scriptures?"
"Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel."
She smiled, amused. "What a barbarian you are!
Bernard Cornwell
#97. Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.
Theodore Roosevelt
#98. Pirenne was quite right that the ancient trading economy continued after the first invasions and the establishment of the mixed Romano-barbarian successor kingdoms. Some kind of connectivity by sea endured continuously, even if at very low levels (Horden and Purcell 2000).
Henri Pirenne
#99. The barbarian invasion put an end, for six centuries, to the civilization of western Europe. It lingered in Ireland until the Danes destroyed it in the ninth century;
Bertrand Russell
#100. 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.
Bertrand De Jouvenel
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