Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance. . . (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. . . . In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.
So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.
A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.
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
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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.
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.
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
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.
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
War is the business of barbarians.