Barbaric Quotes

• If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

  Karel Appel

  Art, Age, Avant Garde

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• Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Real, Judging, Doe

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• The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

  Nelson Mandela

  Animal, Reflection, Death Penalty

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• A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Ignorance, People, Political

  "Politics". Scientology Policy Letter, February 13, 1965.

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• It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. It is -- we know terrorists are barbaric, and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

  Hugh Shelton

  United States, Citizens, Faces

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Objectivity, Ideas

  "Prophesy Deliverance!". Book by Cornel West, 1982.

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• I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Cheer, Thinking, Ideas

  "Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out" by Jeremy Clarkson, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 8, 2009.

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• Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.

  L. Neil Smith

  Fighting, Hunting, Government

  "The Unnecessary Depression". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 01, 2009.

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• Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.

  Ralph Wiley

  Football, War, Men

  Ralph Wiley (2000). “Serenity: A Boxing Memoir”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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• Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Humans, Creatures, Human Beings

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• We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale. It's the same thing with cyber warfare. We should never be attacking hospitals. We should never be taking down power plants unless that is absolutely necessary to ensure our continued existence as a free people.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Technique, Warfare

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Selfish, Ignorance

  Thomas Sowell (1987). “Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays”, William Morrow

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• Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Palaces, Machines

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts". Book by Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" (p. 135), 1983.

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• As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

  Abel Ferrara

  Miracle, Faces, Earth

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

  Julie Powell

  May, Laptops, Sound

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• To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

  Danny Sugerman

  Jail, Drug, Rooms

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• Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Animal, Demonstration, Cruelty

  "Q&A With Actor and Activist Ian Somerhalder ( Lost, The Vampire Diaries ) on Social Change and Animal Rights". Quora Interveiw, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2013.

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• Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Land, Long

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• The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

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• The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.

  Spencer Bachus

  News, World, Als

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• We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

  William Butler Yeats

  Moving, Self, Cities

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or barbaric to listen to the voices of the souls of the world, and so the heart and the nobility of an entire way of life dried up and withered away.

  P. C. Cast

  Believe, Heart, Voice

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.158, Macmillan

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