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

Category:
Automobiles
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Knowledge
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

Category:
Interviews
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Sports
category

I never played sports. I wasnt any good at them. – Leighton Meester

Category:
Sports

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter – were tribal by nature. Tribes today arent the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isnt just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: Its sports fans, its communities, its geography. – Peter Guber

Category:
Sports

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition. – Trishelle Cannatella

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Sports

If you got the game, you got the game. Thats why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. – Shaquille ONeal

Category:
Sports

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I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior. – Serge Lang

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If you suspect a man, dont employ him, and if you employ him, dont suspect him. – Chinese Proverb

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