Spartacus Quotes in Spartacus (1960)

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Spartacus Quotes:

  • Tigranes Levantus: If you looked into a magic crystal, you saw your army destroyed and yourself dead. If you saw that in the future, as I'm sure you're seeing it now, would you continue to fight?

    Spartacus: Yes.

    Tigranes Levantus: Knowing that you must lose?

    Spartacus: Knowing we can. All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things.

    Tigranes Levantus: They both lose life.

    Spartacus: 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.

  • Antoninus: Are you afraid to die, Spartacus?

    Spartacus: No more than I was to be born.

  • Spartacus: 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: I am not an animal!

    Varinia: Neither am I.

  • Varinia: You like him, don't you.

    Spartacus: Who wants to fight? An animal can learn to fight. But to say beautiful things, and to make people believe them...

  • [being forced to fight]

    Spartacus: Don't give them the pleasure of a contest. Lower your guard, I'll kill you on the first rush.

    Antoninus: I won't let them crucify you!

    Spartacus: It's my last order, obey it!

  • Spartacus: What's your name?

    Draba: You don't want to know my name. I don't want to know your name.

    Spartacus: Just a friendly question.

    Draba: Gladiators don't make friends. If we're ever matched in the arena together, I have to kill you.

  • [fighting]

    Spartacus: Do you realize how long it takes to die on a cross?

    Antoninus: I don't care!

  • Spartacus: [to Crassus, about the slain Antoninus] Here's your victory. He'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be millions!

  • [on a gladiator who had wanted to see Rome]

    Spartacus: He has no need. Rome has come to us.

  • Varinia: What are you thinking about?

    Spartacus: I'm free. And what do I know? I don't even know how to read.

    Varinia: You know things that can't be taught.

    Spartacus: I know nothing. Nothing. And I wanna know. I want to... I wanna know.

    Varinia: Know what?

    Spartacus: Everything! Why a star falls and a bird doesn't, where the sun goes at night, why the moon changes shape. I wanna know where the wind comes from.

    Varinia: The wind begins in a cave: far to the north, a young god sleeps in that cave. He dreams of a girl and he sighs, and the night wind stirs with his breath.

    [laughs]

    Spartacus: I wanna know all about you. Every line, every curve. I wanna know every part of you. Every beat of your heart.

  • Spartacus: The only reward of a slave is scars.

  • Consul Metello: You never win victories with brute force alone. You also have to have a brain.

    Spartacus: You don't believe I have one.

  • Livia: You're not a Christian?

    Spartacus: That's the sort of thing that I don't have time to be bothered with.

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