Spectacle Quotes

211 Spectacle quotes by 179 unique authors

The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is… — Neil Postman
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering… — Carl Bernstein
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us… — Harold Nicolson
The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know… — Robert Montgomery
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when oneâ€™s groin greets… — C.D. Payne
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task… — Hector Hugh Munro
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance… — Carl Jung
Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world. — Unknown Author
The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was… — Daniel Harvey Hill
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then… — Thurman Arnold
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to… — Unknown Author
Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion… — Horatius Bonar
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence,… — Whittaker Chambers
The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in… — Denis Donoghue
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to… — John Wesley Powell
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself...all… — Audrey Hepburn
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so… — Arthur Schopenhauer
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only… — Barack Obama

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