Barbaric Quotes - Page 4

• Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Isis, Organization

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, War, Latin

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example. And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.

  Bill Bonner

  Pain, Government, Organization

  "Careful Steps to Avoid a 'Dystopian Future'" by Bill Bonner, dailyreckoning.com. January 12, 2012.

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• One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!

  Bob Barker

  Heart, Animal, Years

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• Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.

  Dennis Rainey

  Honesty, Real, Men

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• A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

  Marie Stopes

  Civilization, Birth Control, Modern

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• If the immigrant is responsible for assimilation of the country, and some of these people are in fact are born there. But if you find it unwelcoming to your own barbaric notions of equality, that is not on the country, that is on you. If you leave a horrible place, please leave your horrible practices behind.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Practice, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.

  Antoinette Bosco

  Country, Practice, Punishment

  Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”

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• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, America, Black

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Ignorant, Western Culture

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

  Atul Gawande

  Sacrifice, Risk, Suffering

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.136, Metropolitan Books

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• Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War, Earthquakes, Suffering

  "Orphaned, Raped and Ignored" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.

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• A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Loss, Grandchildren, Ideas

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Law, Abiding, Sides

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendour. It is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished. The most gaudy and ostentatious specimens of it, and sometimes the most stupendous, have been reared by such hands. It is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization.

  William H. Prescott

  Eye, Hands, Civilization

  William H. PRESCOTT (1873). “History of the Conquest of México”, p.173

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• Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Humility, Accuracy, Capitalism

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• I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant, stupid, barbaric thing when I was a child and I've never gotten over that feeling. If you're talking about religion it's one thing; I don't hold Jewish religion with any more seriousness than I would any other.

  Woody Allen

  Religious, Children, Stupid

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.

  John Piper

  Block, Distance, Years

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• It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.

  James Carroll

  War, Distance, Cities

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• The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

  Voltaire

  Order, Tears, Intolerance

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4769, Delphi Classics

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• Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed?

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Christian, Daughter

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• People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn't that simple. So they end up doing things that aren't necessarily good. Even if they think they're doing the right thing, but when viewed from a different perspective they can look barbaric and crazy.

  Matt Damon

  Crazy, Thinking, Simple

  "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist, terrorist group.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, Organization, Roots

  Hillary Clinton's speech on foreign policy and domestic issues at the Democratic presidential debate at Drake University in Iowa hosted by the CBS News, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, Shoes, Organization

  Hillary Clinton's speech on foreign policy and domestic issues at the Democratic presidential debate at Drake University in Iowa hosted by the CBS News, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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