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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary. (When speaking of the death penalty.)

- Kate Mulgrew

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

- Alba Quinones

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

- Albrecht Durer

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

- Alexei Ponikarovsky

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today`s shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.

- Amadeu Altafaj Tardio

This murder once again shows that journalists pay a very high price to report in Iraq. It is absolutely appalling that insurgents use this kind of barbaric violence against people whose job is just to observe and report, and who just carry a notebook and pen.

- Ann Darrin

Pregnancy is barbaric. ”¦ The husband`s guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman`s tears in front of the mirror at eight months are all gut reactions, not to be dismissed as cultural habits. ... Three thousand years ago women giving birth `naturally` had no need to pretend that pregnancy was a real trip, some mystical orgasm.

- Barbara Platt

Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will

- Winston Churchill

One day it`s going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies

- Bruce Kent