Barbarous Quotes

• In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Understand
  • Sheep
  • Barbarous

• The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.

  

  Amerigo Vespucci
  • Living
  • Manner
  • Barbarous

• The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Education
  • Conversation
  • Barbarous

• War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • War
  • Values
  • Regret

• If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

  

  Karel Appel
  • Paint
  • Barbarian
  • Barbarous