#barb

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#beyond #existence #help #mankind #must

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

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

Sooner barbarity than boredom. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#boredom #sooner #than

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#barb #brief #bright #flame #love

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#barber #beauty #i #i remember #memories

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics. ↗

— Jacob Lusk

#classic #classics #frank #frank sinatra #i

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#because #black #comes #detest #i

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#broke #german #hitler #hysterical #into

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. ↗

— John McCain

#barbara boxer #because #bitterly #boxer #experience