If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
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 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.
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
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.
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.
War,--the trade of barbarians!
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in. . . Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.