Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Sherif Ali: Does it surprise you, Mr Bentley? Surely, you know the Arabs are a barbarous people. Barbarous and cruel. Who but they! Who but they!
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; no...
Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimon...
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
War is at its best barbarism.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Tis a barbaric fancy," said Roxholm thoughtfully as he turned the stem of his glass, keeping his eyes fixed on it as though solving a problem for himself. "A barbaric fancy that a woman needs a master. She who is strong enough is her own conqueror--a...
By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western Christian civilisation': France, imperial Germany, the Habsburg Reich, Poland with its self-image as przedmurze (...
There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.
The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.
The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
