Quotes About Spartacus

#1. 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!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all.
There is no great mystery about Spartacus.

Howard Fast

#3. Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Alex North

#4. 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.

Victor Hugo

#5. When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.

Kirk Douglas

#6. There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Suzanne Collins

#7. Look at this save. Cat-like, jungle-like, quick. Big puma. Big, beautiful, brave gladiator goalkeeper. Spartacus, I called him. Mix in a bit of octopus. Beautiful.

Ray Hudson

#8. 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.

Dustin Clare

#9. 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.

Kirk Douglas

#10. I will remain on Spartacus's side, never with the Caesars, and even against science I am going to maintain my trust in the ability of the working masses to free themselves from the yoke of capitalism, since whoever has seen the masses in action knows that it is possible.

Leonardo Padura

#11. Spartacus," I called, "how's it hanging?" Probably not too well. Once you're dead, had your organs removed, and are resurrected as an undead mummified cat, your testicles probably looked like old raisins that had rolled under the couch. Raisins didn't tend to ... hang.

Rob Thurman

#12. Isaiah rolled his eyes. Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

Richelle Mead

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

Edward Abbey

#14. Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, arnt you

Richelle Mead

#15. My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

Michael Douglas

#16. 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.

Kirk Douglas

#17. To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.

Jai Courtney

#18. 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.

Kirk Douglas

#19. A gladiator only gets to use a real sword when he fights in the arena, since no Roman worth his salt trusts a gladiator with a real sword in the ludus. You have that ungrateful wretch Spartacus to thank for that.

Simon Scarrow

#20. For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.

Andy Whitfield

#21. This is almost a Spartacus moment. There are gasps. Hermione

J.K. Rowling

#22. When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle that he had slain, and thus marched across it.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

#23. Seriously?" Spartacus looked amazed. "I thought this looked the same to everyone. We're in a massive library that stretches all the way to the sky. It's beautiful, with oak and teak shelves, gorgeous patterns in the wood, and beautiful books. There's endless amounts to read and look at.

Kaza Kingsley

#24. Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

Gary Weiss

#25. Gladiators seek to best all, it is how they survive

Spartacus

#26. I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it.

Spartacus

#27. There is but one path. We must kill them all.

Spartacus

#28. Death comes to us all. Press me again and you shall find yours.

Spartacus

#29. We do not choose love. It claims each man as it will.

Spartacus

#30. The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.

Aldo Schiavone

#31. A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it

Spartacus

#32. When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

Spartacus

#33. No more than I was to be born.

Spartacus

#34. Madness? THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

Spartacus

#35. And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.

Spartacus

#36. Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates.

Spartacus

#37. Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!

Spartacus