Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord Quotes

#1. Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity

Guy Debord

#2. Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Charles Spurgeon

#3. Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire.

Anthony Liccione

#4. I never won an Oscar ... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas

Irene Papas

#5. Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

Dolly Parton

#6. If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succeed it will be because it finds the political will and means to tame its economic forces.

Robert L. Heilbroner

#7. The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.

Guy Debord

#8. This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

Guy Debord

#9. None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Guy Debord

#10. I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

Stephen Jay Gould

#11. As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain a social necessity. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

Guy Debord

#12. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are ... this.

Joe Abercrombie

#13. System, as the advanced economic sector which directly shapes a growing multitude of image-objects, the spectacle is the main production of present-day society.

Guy Debord

#14. In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

Joni Ernst

#15. You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work.

Kristine Lilly