Barbarians Quotes

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. - Samuel Gompers

My father said, 'You better get out of Hong Kong. They are real barbarians'. - Long Qiming

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

It was advantageous for the French and English to promote the idea that everything out of Spain was ugly, cruel and crude because of the Inquisition and blah, blah, blah. The legend persisted for years and years -- centuries -- with this belief that all the Spanish were barbarians. - Donald Dietz

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

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? - Angela Carter

I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. - Bible

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. - Walter Kohn

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. - Barbara Amiel

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. - Dean Inge