Quotes Tagged With :barbarians

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

Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.

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

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

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.

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

The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will....

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help....

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether....

War is the business of barbarians.