Barbarous Quotes

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

Death, Law, Trying

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

Fashion, Reason, Imitation

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

True, Thinks, Prejudices

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
Brigitte Bardot

Cruel, Protect, Inhuman

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe

Women, Learning, Thought

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Charles Dudley Warner

Ignorance, Call, Generation

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
Neil LaBute

Humans, Fairly, Bunch

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
June Jordan

Political, Writing, Self

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
Robert Dale Owen

Life, Others, Desire

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
Albert Bushnell Hart

Legal, Justice, Special

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Ethan Allen

Science, Learning, Ignorant

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