Barbarians Quotes

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

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.

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

War is the business of barbarians.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if it were a mere stopover for refueling, or even worse, characterize us as barbarians who would ransack their own home.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.

Bluebell, you couldn’t take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back.” “Bluebell?” Illium narrowed his eyes. “That’s it, Barbarian.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

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.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

The barbarians come out at night.

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'

One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.