#barbarian

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#barbarian #conan #go #i #liked

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

— Samuel Gompers

#children #ever #existed #money #offered

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

— William Hazlitt

#barbarous #everything #his #own #prejudices

War is the business of barbarians. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#business #war

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us... The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?" -Salvian ↗

— William J Federer

#barbarians #dual-meaning #evil #evil-men #evil-people

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

— Leonard Woolf

#barbarian #civilized #civilized man #effort #man

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ↗

— Dean Inge

#civilized #disease #gambling #superficially

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

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#air conditioning #barbarians #brought #coming #conditioning