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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

I'm not a barbarian.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.