A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
I've never raised my hand on anyone in my whole life. I feel it's barbaric.
… the gallows, surrounded by a witless crowd with an insatiable blood lust …
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.
We need to be clear in calling out evil for what it is. When people will behead a child, and when people will leave people starving on top of a mountain without food or water - 40,000 of them - I don't care what religion it is: It's evil.
[Theodore Roosevelt had the] cruel malevolence of a barbarian .... [he] uttered a lie as black and damnable, a calumny as foul and atrocious, as ever issued from a human throat.
What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
They eat little flesh except human flesh
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
