Quote by Roland Barthes
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to im

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes

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Automobiles
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

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Society
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Other Quotes from
Sports
category

Ive always been into sports and being physical. – Moon Bloodgood

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Sports

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan. – Phil Simms

Category:
Sports

Thats what Major League Baseballs steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young. – Suzanne Fields

Category:
Sports

I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports. – Julius Erving

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Sports

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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. – John Lancaster Spalding

Category:
Philosophical

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. – Pearl S. Buck

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Education

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future. – J. G. Ballard

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