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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses’  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) 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.  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) 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 we are least able to pay for them.  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) It’s harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the ‘Great British Bake-Off’ and ‘Tumble.’ We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) 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  (Bread And Circuses Quotes) 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!  (Bread And Circuses Quotes)