#barbarian

War is the business of barbarians. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#business #war

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#barbarians #civilization #themselves #think

I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age ↗

— Adrianne Ambrose

#barbarian #comedy #fantasy #parody #age

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#barbarians #farming #hunting #like #sea

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#civilization #conquest #development #law #march

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#barbarism #customs #law #nature #self-centered

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#barbarism #civil #civilization #courtesy #manners

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#barbarous #everything #his #own #prejudices

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ↗

— Dean Inge

#civilized #disease #gambling #superficially