Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
“Pilate was required to release one of the prisoners, so he gave the mob the choice of Jesus or Barabbas, a notorious murderer and… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image