Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled. . . until. . . until. . . until. . . until you've had enough. ' Ford was running after him. Very very fast. 'And then I will do it again!' yelled Arthur, 'And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday
Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
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.
American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
The barbarians come out at night.
War is the business of barbarians.
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.