But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.
There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.
Though it might sound quaint, there was a time when people could be astonished.
By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.
We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.
[His key to politics:] Bread and circuses. Panem et circenses.
If you wish my opinion of Theodore Roosevelt, it is that he might make a passable king, a very fair newspaper man, an admirable circus impresario; but as President he is as monstrous as would be Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy in a Salome dance.
founder of the Christian Science religion
I've been around the world seven times, been stabbed three times, been down in an airplane, and once dated the Bearded Lady.