#barbarians

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#barbarians #farming #hunting #like #sea

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#appear #barbarians #came #come #curious

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us... The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?" -Salvian ↗

— William J Federer

#barbarians #dual-meaning #evil #evil-men #evil-people

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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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

#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

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

#before #born #civilization #civilized #each

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

— Thomas Sowell

#battle #civilization #comes #down #going

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#children #ever #existed #money #offered

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ↗

— Dean Inge

#civilized #disease #gambling #superficially

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#canada #here #inside #outside #walls