William Wilberforce

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

English Politician

George Edward Woodberry

Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

American Critic

Albert Camus

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.

French Philosopher

Ann Widdecombe

I am a passionate opponent of fox hunting because the fox runs in fear of its life over a prolonged period, hearing the hounds getting closer and closer. Barbarous does not even begin to describe such a sport.

British Politician

John Muir

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

American Environmentalist

Daniel Defoe

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.

English Journalist

Ethan Allen

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.

American Revolutionary

George Santayana

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

Spanish Philosopher

Brigitte Bardot

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

French Actress

Neil LaBute

American Director

Use 'barbarous' when describing actions that shock due to their extreme cruelty or inhumanity.

Severity Emphasis

'Barbarous' often implies strong disapproval and moral outrage towards the described act.

Condemnation Tone

In literature, 'barbarous' can be used to heighten drama by showing extreme conflict.

Literary Dramatization

Be cautious using 'barbarous' to describe cultures; it can be seen as offensive or ethnocentric.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Barbarous' can reflect the speaker's view that something is backward or not modern.

Context Dependent

'Barbarous' historically has been used by one group to imply superiority over another group.

Ethno-Centric

'Barbarous' can describe sounds that are especially unpleasant or offensive to the ear.

Auditory Displeasure

What one finds 'barbarous' in sound, another might not, indicating personal taste.

Subjective Experience

 do a new translation of the New Testament and which he said he aimed to close the idea of the Apostle the Apostles with propriety and perspicuity replacing the bald and barbarous language of the old vulgar version