{"quotes":[{"text":"Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["barbarian","barbarism","civil","civilization","courtesy","manners","passion"],"id":144,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any ranking rules or hierarchy. Whoever wishes to understand the twentieth century must always keep the barbaric factor in view. Precisely in more recent modernity, it was and still is typical to allow an alliance between barbarism and success before a large audience, initially more in the form of insensitive imperialism, and today in the costumes of that invasive vulgarity which advances into virtually all areas through the vehicle of popular culture. That the barbaric position in twentieth-century Europe was even considered the way forward among the purveyors of high culture for a time, extending to a messianism of uneducatedness, indeed the utopia of a new beginning on the clean slate of ignorance, illustrates the extent of the civilizatory crisis this continent has gone through in the last century and a half - including the cultural revolution downwards, which runs through the twentieth century in our climes and casts its shadow ahead onto the twenty-first.","author":"Peter Sloterdijk","tags":["20th-century","21st-century","barbarian","barbaric","barbarism","civilization","iconoclast","ignorance","twentieth-century","vandal","vulgar","vulgarity"],"id":27025,"author_id":"Peter+Sloterdijk"},{"text":"The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amuse","amusement","barbarian","barbarism","bore","bored-boredom","civilization","civilized","complain","complaint","destination","entertain","entertainment","hurry","meditate","meditation","road-rage","stress","stress-free","stress-management","stress-relief","stressed","stressful","suffer","suffering","traffic","traffic-jam"],"id":56037,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You didn't find any trace of her?' asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. 'None. In the jungle, I could have found her; but here –-here, in civilization, a man cannot even find himself.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["barbarian","civilization","finding-yourself"],"id":100213,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["barbarian","battle","civilization","conflict","hypocrisy","love","morality","peace","unity","utopia","war"],"id":127650,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most “savage” or “barbarous” of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.","author":"Claude Lévi-Strauss","tags":["anthropology","barbarian","barbarism","cultural-differences","cultural-relativism","culture","ethnocentrism","savage","savagery"],"id":142389,"author_id":"Claude+L%C3%A9vi-Strauss"},{"text":"I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age.","author":"Adrianne Ambrose","tags":["amazons","barbarian","comedy","fantasy","parody"],"id":154594,"author_id":"Adrianne+Ambrose"},{"text":"Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.","author":"Andrew Ashling","tags":["barbarian","ignorance","intolerance","knowledge","primitive","unknow"],"id":163817,"author_id":"Andrew+Ashling"},{"text":"Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.).","author":"Ovid","tags":["barbarian","comprehension","understanding"],"id":206443,"author_id":"Ovid"},{"text":"You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.","author":"Greg X. Graves","tags":["barbarian","humor","short-stories","violence"],"id":261886,"author_id":"Greg+X.+Graves"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}