Underlying/examples

Famous quotes containing the words underlying and/or examples:

“Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)