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"Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace."

"We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us."

"[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."

"I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age"

"Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and ..."

"The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom."

"If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia..."

"Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)"

"The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who see..."

"Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses ..."