"We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory"
- Victor Hugo
"As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal"
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned t..."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands of i..."
- Robert G. Ingersoll