(31 quotes found)
“I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival”
T.S. Eliot
“Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.”
Edmund Burke
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”
Walt Whitman
“Communism means barbarism”
James Russell Lowell
“The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.”
William Hazlitt
“We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.”
Clark M. Clifford
“I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.”
Simone Weil
“It's particularly barbaric that this has happened”
Tony Blair
“put to death in such a barbaric fashion.”
David Gibbs
“We don't know why he did this. This was barbaric.”
Mike Pena
