The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not a barbarian.
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
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.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.