If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
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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
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians… and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
Alexander the Great
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Pierre Schaeffer
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
Charles Fletcher Dole
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