Barbaric Act Quotes

#1. The death sentence is a barbaric act.

Nelson Mandela

#2. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. However, he brought to mind instances of cultured fellows that promised so brilliantly nipped in the bud of premature decay and nobody to blame but themselves.

James Joyce

#4. ...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.

Peter Nadas

#5. This which you see before you is merely the Khat, 'that which decays', the physical body that contained the Khaibit or shadow body which has now dissolved, and the Ka, or 'double'.

Max Overton

#6. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S. Truman

#7. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Hannah More

#8. We all have our handicaps. You're not mine.

Kelly Moran

#9. I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

Jeremy Clarkson

#10. Sistani's office refuses the replacement of the law [which excludes former Baath Party members from returning to public life] because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.

Ali Al-Sistani

#11. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#12. But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.

Rajneesh