bread and circuses
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They’re capitalist endeavors, not charity cases, whose stated mission is to provide bread and circuses to the masses while making as much profit as possible in the process.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2025
Instead, at the end of the day, as the world spins out of control, people want bread and circuses to keep them from contemplating the horrors that we ourselves have created.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023
We might ask our governments to aim for more than mere bread and circuses, though.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022
“Give them food and cake and they won’t revolt?” she said, paraphrasing the ancient saying about bread and circuses.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2022
Evidently, the lower caste of the Proletarian Paradise was well on the way to its own version of bread and circuses.
From Frigid Fracas by Reynolds, Mack
