Famous Juvenal Quote 

"Now that no one buys our votes,
the public has long since cast off its cares;
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."

by:
Juvenal
[Decimus Junius Juvenalis] (c.55-c.128 AD) Roman satirical poet
Date:
c. 100 A.D
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The process hasn't changed just the currency.
 -- RobertSRQ		 
Education is the only answer. Lots of education. The less educated cannot see the abstraction of politics and the further away the abstraction is (state, nation, world) the less they are able to see it and care. Pay me for my vote or give me some benefit I can see clearly. Not unlike the poor of France that first needed religious statutes in order to relate to church doctrine and later needed stautes to define the concepts of liberty and justice.
 -- Bruce, 'Bama		 
As long as we get our infotainment and credit lines, we are passified -- that is until the powers-that-be wish to work us up into a frenzy so that we start bombing one another. Is there nothing mortal man cannot be made to believe? Truth is more important than 'education' -- and it cannot be taught, only spoken -- would that we had the discernment to tell the difference.
 -- E Archer, NYC		 
(-; The direct approach to buying votes is far too expensive and the promise of bennies is much more long term and devious.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
The recognition and value of truth can be taught but not truth itself - truth is absolute and absolutes are absolute.
 -- RobertSRQ		 
Beware of those who have truth but not education. Education teaches those who get it about how much they don't know. Having truth puts an end to the use of the inquiring mind. Hitler for example burned all of the books because Nazism had the truth. Radical Islam has the truth.
 -- Anonymous		 
When did they not stop buying votes? Where is this guy coming from? I can’t believe things were that different back then. Human nature surely can't have changed that much. My recollection of his culture would have me believe that it was actually worse then than now. I have to assume that this quote is an example of his satire and speaks more to the Roman's softening resolve and lack of determination that led to its downfall.
 -- warren, olathe		 
Hitler did not have the truth. He burned books because he couldn't deal with the truth. Radical Islam does the same. Destroy all you don’t like, keep the people ignorant and you get power as a reward. That is how the left in our country attains power also. The destruction of our school system and perversion of our media is purely intentional. That is why you see so many leaders get so frantic about information sources that they have no control over. They try to block home schooling and private education. They demand legislation to make it "fair" for them. (Nothing that contradicts them is fair) Truth is a dangerous thing to them and must be destroyed. They even go so far as to redefine truth to mean any thing they want. So it depends on what your definition of "is" is.
 -- warren, olathe		 
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