Classical Studies Question: What were the circumstances of…

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged…

— George Orwell

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

— Harold Prince

“Julius Caesar is an ambivalent study of civil conflict. As in Richard II, the play is structured around two protagonists rather than one. Cesar…

— David Bevington

“I expect Julius Caesar's actual words not only lacked poignancy but were likely unmentionable.”

— Cheryl Bolen

“p. 274 ...his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not...a sign that he had conquered his ambitions,…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“when meeting someone, our brains are in overdrive. Remember Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? He said of Cassius, he "has a lean and hungry look .…

— Leil Lowndes

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What did you enact? POLONIUS: I did enact Julius Caesar; I was kill'd i' the Capitol; Brutus killed me. HAMLET: It was a brute…

— William Shakespeare

The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.

— Clive James

I still remember the moment when my teacher, Mr. Budaza, walked into class and said, 'Today we are going to study 'Julius Caesar,' one…

— John Kani

“Some gay soldiers and officers, particularly those with a college education, carried with them a mythology, developed from reading the classics and in conversations…

— Allan Bérubé

I have seen productions of Julius Caesar that set it in a modern, Western context and it just looks as though they're getting rid…

— Gregory Doran

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon…

— George Lucas

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders…

— Brendan Myers

“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)”

— William Shakespeare