Quotes Tagged With :barbarian

the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand....

You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians....

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes....

You can never destroy the barbarian culture of hatred, violence, and death by killing barbarians. You....

But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody....

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

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded....