Barbarians Quotes

• These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

  

  Aristotle
  • Power
  • Royalty
  • Dictator

• War is the business of barbarians.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Business
  • War
  • Barbarians

• Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Soldiers
  • Peoples
  • Greeks

• Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

  

  Plato
  • Passionate
  • Friendships
  • Homosexuality

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

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Taste
  • Prejudice

• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Live
  • Fantasy
  • Matters

• What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Today
  • Waiting
  • Barbarians

• The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Progress
  • March
  • Conquest

• Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

  

  Confucius
  • Speech
  • Neighbors
  • Yoke

• A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.

  

  Ernest Howard Crosby
  • World
  • Men
  • Barbarians

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

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Winning
  • Battle
  • Civilization

• Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Common
  • Decency
  • Campus

• To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

  

  William Godwin
  • Mean
  • Sentiments
  • Compulsion

• It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

  

  Charles Fletcher Dole
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • People
  • Kindness
  • Barbarians

• It may not be factually true that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but the saying has passed into common usage because the image has the ring of truth to it. Time and time again, the good and decent common people have manned the walls of the city, and have been ready to give their lives in its defense, only to discover too late that some silk-robed (expletive) has snuck out of the palace at midnight and thrown open the gates to the barbarians outside."

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Truth
  • Image
  • Discover

• The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.

  

  Eric Corley
  • Practice
  • Idea
  • Humans

• Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

  

  William W. Johnstone
  • Should
  • Barbarians

• War,--the trade of barbarians!

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Trade
  • Barbarians

• It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Leaving
  • Empires
  • Globes

• 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
  • Born
  • Civilization
  • Libertarian

• The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

  

  Will Durant
  • Freedom
  • Story
  • Civilization