I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks…

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked…

— Robert Klein

“Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.”

— Marlene Dietrich

Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

— Bette Ford

Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

— Barnaby Conrad

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

— Bette Ford

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and…

— Ingrid Newkirk

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

— Elbert Hubbard

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If the bulls were allowed to increase their knowledge as the bullfighter does, and if those bulls which are not killed in the allotted…

— Ernest Hemingway

“To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to…

— Peter Singer

In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has…

— Carly Fiorina

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you…

— Bette Ford

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

— Charles Bukowski

“A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators.”

— H.L. Mencken