Bread And Circuses Quotes

• Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

  Juvenal

  Giving, Circus, Bread

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• Lo que puedo llamar los mensajes de Brave New World, pero es posible hacer que la gente esté contenta con su servidumbre. Creo que se puede hacer. Creo que se ha hecho en el pasado. Creo que se puede hacer incluso con más eficacia ahora porque se les puede proporcionar pan y circo y se les puede proporcionar cantidades interminables de distracciones y propaganda.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Brave New World, Thinking

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• Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Military, Men, Long Ago

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• Lo que se supone que ocurre en una democracia es que cada ciudadano soberano votará siempre en interés público por la seguridad y el bienestar de todos. Pero lo que sí ocurre es que vota su propio interés según lo ve... lo que para la mayoría se traduce en "Pan y Circo".

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Safety, Democracy

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• The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

  Juvenal

  Two, People, Circus

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• Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

  Suzanne Collins

  Responsibility, People, Political

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.

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• Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Art, Philosophy, Food

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• That's a Roman concept where the government can do anything, as long as you give the people "bread and circuses." And I'd say this culture right now is similar, as long as people have money, fun, and food, our government can do heinous, heinous things.

  Ian MacKaye

  Fun, Thinking, Government

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Nuestro único partido político tiene dos alas derechas, una llamada republicana y la otra demócrata. Pero Henry Adams se dio cuenta de todo eso en la década de 1890. "Tenemos un sistema único", escribió, y "en ese sistema la única cuestión es el precio al que se va a comprar y vender el proletariado, el pan y circo".

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Wings, Two

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.50, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.

  Chris Hedges

  Book, Emotional, Energy

  Entrevista con David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. 14 th Of July de 2011.

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• Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Dos, Largo, Gente

  Juvenal (1940). "Juvenal y Persio"

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• I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

  Bill Moyers

  Strength, Might, Pay

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Silence, Soul, Humanity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). "Lo pequeño es hermoso"

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• I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

  Jake LaMotta

  Home, Boxing, Relief

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• We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

  David Paul

  Stars, Night, Darkness

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• The Romans always wanted bread and circuses-food and entertainement! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!" Someething dropped from the ceiling and landed at Percy's feet: a loaf of sandwich bread in a white plastic wrapper with red and yellow dots. Percy picked it up. "Wonder bread?" "Magnificent, isn't it?" Ephialtes eyes danced with crazy excitement.

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Eye, Cities

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