Quotes of: Barbarian Keyword

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Cassius: On this day, we reach back to hallowed antiquity, to bring you a recreation of the second fall of the mighty Carthage!... On the barren plain of Zama, there stood the invincible armies of the barbarian Hannibal. Ferocious mercenaires and war...

Gladiator

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Are ye always standing like a stallion?" His low chuckle brought another wave of gooseflesh across her skin. "Only when Ye're near.

Beauty and the Barbarian

Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.

Beauty and the Barbarian

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

Regarding the Pain of Others

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

Thales

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

The Killick: A Newfoundland Story

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

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

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,'...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?

Beauty and the Barbarian

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

Bears, Recycling and Confusing Time Paradoxes

These squatters aren’t just aliens, drifters and undesirables. They’re new world barbarians, conquering free spaces and making them their own.

The Red Light Princess

Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere.

Waiting for the Barbarians

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

Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to.

Noam Chomsky

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

Fernando Pessoa

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians