Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Angela Carter

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

Andre Braugher

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

Barbara Amiel

We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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...

Maurice de Vlaminck

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

Marwan Muasher

These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality.

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Tacitus

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

Aasif Mandvi

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Janos Bolyai

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

Eckhart Tolle

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

Jane Campion

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Jane Goodall

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Jamie Foxx

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

Camille Paglia

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Camille Paglia

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?

Carl Jung

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

Robert Crumb

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination.

Edward Carey

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

Eric Whitacre

The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

Eric Kandel

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Guy Laliberte

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

Brian Molko

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.