Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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.
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
I'm not a barbarian.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
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