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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.

— Barbara Amiel

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Barbara Amiel

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

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

— Leonard Woolf

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

— Angela Carter

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

— Brent Scowcroft

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

— Thomas Sowell

I'm not a barbarian.

— Jason Momoa

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.

— Zhang Zhidong

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Isaiah Berlin