Bread Quote by Ian MacKaye

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when…

— Iain Sinclair

“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem et Circenses…

— Suzanne Collins

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

— Jake LaMotta

It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how…

— Laurie Colwin

When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no…

— Chuck D

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

— Vincent de Paul

“In our self-government, family government and circles of influence are we building and promoting a culture of life-giving edification or pursuing a death-oriented culture…

— Tim Yarbrough

The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their…

— Henry David Thoreau

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected…

— James Hillman

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or…

— Eric Gill

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

— Guy Laliberte