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Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. — Attila Kotanyi

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. — Guy Debord

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. — Joseph Addison

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look. — Nel Noddings

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness — Nicole Krauss

me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake — Mark Twain

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle. — Cesar Luis Menotti

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation. — Guy Debord

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. — Oscar Wilde

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle. — Kristin Cavallari

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot

The spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing. — William H. Whyte

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe. — Rene Girard

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J.J. Abrams

Conversely, real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle, and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it. — Guy Debord

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see. — David Douglas

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions. — Rebecca Goldstein

Andy gasped and jumped up, pumping his fists and yelling, "Yahoo!" Alden and the King stared at the spectacle and started laughing. — L.R.W. Lee

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle. — Joe Carnahan

How great a spectacle! But that, I fear,
Is all it is. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

lady spectators were left satisfied: the spectacle had been a rich one. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. — John Steinbeck

I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle. — Gary Hume

Because I was moved by the sorry spectacle of a conventional young man thinking that he had become radically unconventional. — Vera Caspary

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects. — Chris Evans

So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation. — Guy Debord

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Because you're such a wonderful spectacle: I always like to see what you are doing. — Edith Wharton

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle. — Nick Lowe

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle. — Ronald Steel

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind. — James I. Robertson Jr.

There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

His life fell like rain before his eyes, a quiet spectacle — Alessandro Baricco

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. — Oscar De La Renta

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. — Jean Genet

What would be a bigger spectacle, a female with one shoe on or a well-dressed female with no shoes? This is New York so I said fuck it. — Sister Souljah

Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view ... Make a spectacle of yourself. — Eric Maisel

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle — Guy Debord

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle. — Jake Barton

Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above. — Alexander Zinoviev

There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and that is the human soul. — Victor Hugo

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything. — Stacey Lee

The audience is now fully interactive, unfortunately the spectacle is a corpse — Dean Cavanagh

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book ... — Nikolai Gogol

When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies. — Comte De Lautreamont

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past. — Eddie Campbell

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things. — Paul Ricoeur

I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art. — Jennifer Egan

The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle. — Samuel Eto'o

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle. — Aime Cesaire

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. — Victor Hugo

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. — Heinrich Heine

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness. — Henry Steele Commager

My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight and narrow ... — Auberon Waugh

She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death. — Ali Smith

New york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing. — E.B. White

Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle. — Susan Sontag

In terms of big spectacle, I thought 'Captain America 2' was phenomenal. I really loved that movie, and it was a great movie as a stand-alone. — Joe Carnahan

Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private. — Mary Oliver

The truth
a hideous spectacle! — Conrad Aiken

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death. — Barbara W. Tuchman

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. — Christopher Hitchens

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling. — Guillermo Del Toro

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people. — Estelle Parsons

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle. — John Adams

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow

I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle. — Immortal Technique

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. — Harrison Ford

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun. — Joan Miro

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. — Jean De La Bruyere

I've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. — Jean-Luc Godard

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity — Guy Debord

I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature; — Marcel Proust

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. — Thomas Wolfe

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture. — Herbert Hoover

The whole world thus becomes integrated as a spectacle into the domestic universe. — Jean Baudrillard

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too. — Thomas McGuane

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man! — Umberto Eco

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going. — Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest — Arthur Schopenhauer

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. — George Will

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment. — Valentino Rossi

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. — Tony Snow

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. — David Sedaris

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. — Rebecca Solnit

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? — Bertrand Russell

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels. — C.V. Wedgwood

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image. — Guy Debord

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. — John Wesley Powell

The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living. — Guy Debord