Barbarian Quotes

• The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Beings
  • Caste
  • Barbarian

• Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Books
  • Threat
  • Despised

• Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Barbarian
  • Invasions
  • Huns

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

  

  Karel Appel
  • Paint
  • Barbarian
  • Barbarous

• Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, the missionary William Elliot Griffis 1843-1928, the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse 1838-1925, and the writer Lafcadio Hearn, and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

  

  Edwin O. Reischauer
  • Relationship
  • Eyes
  • Force

• The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • God
  • Experience
  • Christ