bread and circuses

What was it he had read in a history book once about bread and circuses?

If the military could provide them with bread and circuses, then the people would be content.

"Not our party, of course, but there are Citizen groups who'd rather try bread and circuses than continue the war."

Bread and circuses led to the fall of the Roman empire.

Meanwhile, the fan continues to want his bread and circuses.

Less bread and circuses, more real good for everyone!

God forbid anyone interfere with a man's bread and circuses.

Turning the great forces of culture (art, music, literature) into bread and circuses is quite destructive.

I would have thought the men behind the scenes they will be thinking of ways to improve the bread and circuses not reduce them.

Bread and circuses would already reveal a much more advanced social compromise.

Above all a leader must be a showman, giving his people the bread and circuses they require.

Cooking can be a very serious matter to performers who care passionately about both bread and circuses.

An old human record calls it 'bread and circuses' to distract the populace.

"They follow the old formula of bread and circuses, empty entertainment.

It may be bread and circuses, but the masses seem to like it.

The days of 'bread and circuses' cannot last indefinitely.

It's the bread and circuses argument, which also misses the larger point: who controls public property.

What Milwaukeeans themselves seem to appreciate most about their city is the abundant bread and circuses.

It's simply far too expensive for many people, given a choice between bread and circuses, bread comes first.

They are merely entertainment, the bread and circuses of a New Rome.

He said luxury boxes "remind me of the old Romans with their bread and circuses."

This is both bread and circuses to us and we will not be denied it."

It's the circus part of bread and circuses.

The term "bread and circuses" is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement.