Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it.

Spartacus

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death Slavery

Speaker

Spartacus

Actor

Kirk Douglas

Source

Spartacus

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) Historical drama (film) Epic Historical drama

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Spartacus. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Bryna Productions, 1960.

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It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

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Topic
Nature of evil Evil The Holocaust

Author

Hannah Arendt
Source
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil The New Yorker
Medium
Essay Magazine
Genre
Political literature Historical literature
Language
English
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Arendt, Hanna. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Viking Press, 1963. Originally published by The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 1963.

Another quote about Death

For when the One Great Scorer
Comes to mark against your name,
He writes-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.

Grantland Rice

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Topic
Fair play Legacy Death

Author

Grantland Rice
Source
Alumnus Football
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 0
Citation

Rice, Grantland. "Alumnus Football." Nashville Tennessean, c. 1908.