Quotes by Barthes, Roland

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always ne >>

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, whic >>

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; >>

Quotations about Sports

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by >>

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most d >>

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death >>

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

Barthes, Roland