I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian. . . one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
War is the business of barbarians.
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was Chinas golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by todays standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in "barbarians" from the steppe.
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?
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.
War,--the trade of barbarians!
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
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.
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.