"Let no one be shocked if, with reference to the creation of the world, I should invoke the testimony of pagan philoso…"

"[A]t this time of the Crusades, there was a strong sense of shame in learning from the Islamic enemy. Also at the tim…"

"I ask El Espinal mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals [after the bullfighting sta…"

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the p…"

"He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullfighting ha…"

"There is an image I will never lose, much as I wish I could. It is of a man standing with half his face held in his r…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"

"At the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would h…"

"The crowd are on their feet, stamping and cheering, but El Cid just stands and stares at the bull in grave silence, h…"

"The Roman public's thirst for blood and pleasure in witnessing pain seems to have been unquenchable and without limit…"