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• The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.525, OUP Oxford

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• Children are gleeful barbarians.

  Joe Morgenstern

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

  Pope Urban II

  Brother, War, Fighting

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• All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Eye, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

  Roy Fuller

  Spiritual, Age, Fit

  Alfred Alvarez, Roy Broadbent Fuller, Anthony Thwaite (1970). “A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can speak or not. Whether they can hire a lawyer or not. Whether they have a birth certificate or not. And I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Baby, Believe

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

  Susanna Moodie

  Country, Native American, Men

  Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

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• There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.

  Paul the Apostle

  Voice, Tongue, Example

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• 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.

  Michael Dirda

  Axes, Battle, Velvet

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• We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Art, Slavery, Invasion

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

  William W. Johnstone

  Knights, Should Have, Arthur

  William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone (2014). “A Dangerous Man: A Novel of William "Wild Bill" Longley”, p.210, Pinnacle Books

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• It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Past, Men, Connections

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.101, University of Chicago Press

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• The Barbarian's shoes are Hair Jordans

  Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

  Wrestling, Hair, Shoes

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• The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as inferior to the Spaniards as children are to adults and women are to men, there being as much difference between them as that between wild and cruel and very merciful persons, the prodigiously intemperate and the continent and tempered, and I daresay from apes to men

  Juan Gines de Sepulveda

  Children, Men, Differences

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• 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.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Machines, Toys

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• I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Tyrants, Rainbow

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• In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Doctors

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• To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

  Joseph Conrad

  Power

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.116, Joseph Conrad

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• I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

  Julius Caesar

  Men, Rome, Village

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• The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

  Will Durant

  Islamic, Order, Civilization

  "Story of Civilization Our Oriental Heritage". Book by Will Durant, 1935.

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• We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Thinking, Break Through

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• 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.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Advantage, Clemency

  Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.157

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• A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ignorance, Wells, Well Rounded

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Country, Book, Eye

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