Every person whether Greek or Barbarian who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to commit injustice nor return it unto others, but to avoid the company of busybodies, and hold in contempt the places where they spend their time courts, councils, marketplaces, assemblies in short, every kind of meeting or reunion of thoughtless people. . . . People such as these, who find their joy in virtue, celebrate a festival their whole life long.
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
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.
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
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.
The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
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.
A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.
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.
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
