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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
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
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
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
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
— J.J. Abrams
Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.
— Rebecca Goldstein
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
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
Because I was moved by the sorry spectacle of a conventional young man thinking that he had become radically unconventional.
— Vera Caspary
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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
Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.
— Stacey Lee
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
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 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
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
The trutha hideous spectacle! — Conrad Aiken
![Spectacle Quotes By Barbara W. Tuchman: [T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/spectacle-quotes-by-barbara-w-tuchman-358742.jpg "Spectacle Quotes By Barbara W. Tuchman: [T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th")
[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
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
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 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 bythe 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
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
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
