What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition.
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience. . . and pimples.
We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!'. . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE. . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'.
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower. . . The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on. . . which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances. . . and why he feels so barbarous.
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.
There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
