Spectacle Quotes

211 quotes by 179 authors

We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is… — Unknown Author
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed… — Oscar de la Renta
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.
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
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will… — Martin Mayer
The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives… — Pope Francis
In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more… — Pope John Paul II
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for… — Lincoln Steffens
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility… — Unknown Author
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle,… — Guillaume Faye
Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right… — Russell Brand
I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither… — Russell Brand
I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out… — Channing Tatum
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. — Tony Snow
I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit… — Winston Churchill
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. — Unknown Author

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