Quotes Tagged With :barbarians

In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated....

No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending....

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

By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves....

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

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

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

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

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

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