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«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 civilization from the barbarians»
Author: Emmanuel Goldstein
| About:
War
| Keywords:
apes, barbarians, conducted, framework, medieval, quaint, separates, The Barbarians
«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.»
«Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man»
«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.»
Author: Garrison Keillor
| About:
Luxury
| Keywords:
air-conditioned, Air conditioning, barbarians, conditioning, luxuries, roman, Roman Empire, shut down, The Barbarians
«If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Liberty,
Terrorism,
War
| Keywords:
barbarians, The Barbarians
«I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.»
«And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.»
«He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
barbarian, customs, laws and customs, Laws of nature, The Barbarians, tribe
«The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
barbarians, barbarous, coarse, coarser, coarsest, The Barbarians, vulgar
«Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Generations
| Keywords:
barbarians, invasion, The Barbarians
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