On the dangers of the gladiators versus that of the stage

While the pleasure of seeing blood flow brings intrinsic satisfaction, the pleasure of onstage indecency inciters spectators to lascivious conduct in their daily lives.

- “Foucault Revolutionizes History” - Paul Veyne, pg. 147 (of Foucault and His Interlocutors, ed. Davison) transl. Catherine Porter - 1978