#barbarous

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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

— William Hazlitt

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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. ↗

— George Santayana

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Albert Camus

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In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue. ↗

— Ethan Allen

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We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch. ↗

— Neil LaBute

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