Kirk Douglas credited as playing...
Spartacus
- Tigranes Levantus: If you looked into a magic crystal, you saw your army destroyed and yourself dead. If you saw that in the future, as I'm sure you're seeing it now, would you continue to fight?
- Spartacus: Yes.
- Tigranes Levantus: Knowing that you must lose?
- Spartacus: Knowing we can. All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things.
- Tigranes Levantus: They both lose life.
- Spartacus: When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
- Spartacus: Maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else. I don't know. But I do know that as long as we live, we must stay true to ourselves. I do know that we're brothers. And I know that we're free. We march tonight!
- Varinia: What are you thinking about?
- Spartacus: I'm free. And what do I know? I don't even know how to read.
- Varinia: You know things that can't be taught.
- Spartacus: I know nothing. Nothing. And I wanna know. I want to... I wanna know.
- Varinia: Know what?
- Spartacus: Everything! Why a star falls and a bird doesn't, where the sun goes at night, why the moon changes shape. I wanna know where the wind comes from.
- Varinia: The wind begins in a cave: far to the north, a young god sleeps in that cave. He dreams of a girl and he sighs, and the night wind stirs with his breath.
- [laughs]
- Spartacus: I wanna know all about you. Every line, every curve. I wanna know every part of you. Every beat of your heart.
- Spartacus: [to Crassus, about the slain Antoninus] Here's your victory. He'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be millions!
- Antoninus: Could we have won, Spartacus? Could we ever have won?
- Spartacus: Just by fighting them, we won something. When just one man says "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear. We were tens of thousands who said no. That was the wonder of it. To have seen slaves lift their heads from the dust, to see them rise from their knees, stand tall with a song on their lips, to hear them storm through the mountains shouting, to hear them sing along the plains.
- Varinia: Spartacus, I've been trying to remember the song that Antoninus sang. Is it blue shadows and purple woods, or is it purple woods and blue shadows or what is it? Can you remember me?
- Spartacus: I want to make love to my wife!
- Varinia: Spartacus, put me down! Oh! You got - you got - you - you have to be gentle with me.