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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Pierre Schaeffer

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
Origen

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

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

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
Barbara Amiel

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
Walter Kohn

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

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
Samuel Gompers

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.
Barbara Amiel

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold

War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte