#barbarian

[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

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#children #ever #existed #money #offered

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#canada #here #inside #outside #walls

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#attention #barbarians #because #closer #course

War is the business of barbarians. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#business #war

Friend, we are well met indeed. I think we are a pair of fools and that we should hasten to Nildren's Peak, where I shall buy ye such a dinner as even your great frame will find sufficient. And then we shall see who can drink the other under the table. Is that good by ye? ↗

— Ian Livingstone

#barbarians #carl-sargent #dwarves #funny #ian-livingstone

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

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#barbarians #farming #hunting #like #sea

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#been #charged #clients #cynical #defend

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#barbarian #century #class #middle #middle class