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Tag Name "Barbarian" (59)

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Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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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
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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
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I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.
John Milius
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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
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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
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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
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To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.
Vivian Vande Velde
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Overall, vampires are a much more refined people vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.
Josh Hutcherson
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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
William Godwin
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
Karel Appel
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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
Mark Twain
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I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.
Maurice de Vlaminck
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Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.
Alfred Richard Orage
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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
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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
Baltasar Gracian
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That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
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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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My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
Pat Conroy
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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
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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
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I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?
Brock Lesnar
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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
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