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“Spartacus is dead, but he's still talking. (Spartacus est mort, Mais il parle encore)”

Dead Talk Mort Charlesdeleusse Spartacus Parler

Author:Charles de Leusse

“Even Spartacus needs a coach.”

Needs Coaches Spartacus

Author:Breaux Greer

“Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.”

Film Hero Radical Relate Spartacus

Author:Alex North

“How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.”

People Thinking Knows Said Stills Real Ends Can Do Half Mouths Affair Spread Classic Gossip Dozen Untrue Stanley Spartacus

Author:Michael Scott

“I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.”

Wells Guy Path Glory Lonely Brave My Favorite Mixtures Good Guy Spartacus

Author:Kirk Douglas

“When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.”

Way Made Government Levels Saws Losing Hollywood Awful Eras Communist Spartacus

Author:Kirk Douglas

“When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.”

People Years Names Answers Jail Spartacus Sam Jackson

Author:Kirk Douglas

“If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!”

Ifs Men Universe Masters Proud Slave Spartacus

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We have researchers involved with the show [Spartacus] and they pointed me in a pretty great direction, in terms of what to read, and what to look at or look for, and they also provided me with some material.”

Looks Shows Term Materials Involved Researchers Spartacus

Author:Dustin Clare

“You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!”

Chairs Expletives Spartacus

Author:Kirk Douglas

“From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”

“Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.”

Reason Jesus Spartacus

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….”

“Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.”

Spirit Born Moral Materials Circumstances Rebellion Phenomenon Stomach Revolt Insurgent Insurrection Spartacus

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables