If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

[S’il faut choisir un crucifié, la foule sauve toujours Barabbas.]

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French writer, filmmaker, artist

“Le Coq et l’Arlequin” (1918), Le Rappel à l’ordre (1926)
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