#barbarian

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise. ↗

— Origen

#also #barbarians #debtor #deliver #easily

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

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#ignorance #intolerance #knowledge #primitive #unknow

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

[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

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#before #born #civilization #civilized #each

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#battle #civilization #comes #down #going

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

#barbarian #civilized #civilized man #effort #man