Spectacle Quotes

211 Spectacle quotes by 179 unique authors

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have… — Jawaharlal Nehru
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here… — Errol Flynn
Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it is a great… — Frederick Lenz
I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and… — Jonathan Gottschall
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel thatâ€™s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning Iâ€™m interested in the… — Ava DuVernay
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones. — Catharine Arnold
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never… — Pierre Trudeau
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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… — Chris Evans
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. — Harrison Ford
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… — Victor Hugo
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture… — John F. Kennedy
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. — Thomas B. Macaulay
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest… — James Madison
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle,… — David Mamet
If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these… — Michael Owen
I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. — Roman Polanski

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