Quote by Leo Tolstoy

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement…

— Guy Debord

“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely…

— Guy Debord

“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey…

— Edith Wharton

“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his…

— Ronald Reagan

“You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“They don’t make spectacles for you, do they?”

— K.J. Charles

“Watching people behave is nothing special; watching them trying to behave is always fascinating.”

— Alan Bennett

“The audience is now fully interactive, unfortunately the spectacle is a corpse”

— Dean Cavanagh

“I’m forever observing, trying to learn how to be an adult human being by watching others, and I’m constantly in awe of how easy…

— Jen Wilde

“I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares