Society Of The Spectacle Quotes

#1. Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option.

Mark Sayers

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

Guy Debord

#3. At least I'm not pussy-whipped." "Nice. Fucking. Suit.

J.R. Ward

#4. Don't, she snapped and I stopped. No fighting back, no response, no arguing. I simply turned my ass right around and sat back on her bed. If I had a tail, it would sure as shit have been tucked between my legs.

J. Sterling

#5. We all die alone though, Shea. Even if we're surrounded by others, it's still a solo journey.

Alexa Land

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

Timothy Keller

#11. I guess she was a life line
Sewing our family fabric together
From me to dad to her
Gave me a sense of continuity
Especially when my daughter was born
As she was slipping away

Richard L. Ratliff

#12. Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Michel Foucault

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

Guy Debord

#14. 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

#15. The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

Rene Girard

#16. Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

M. Scott Peck

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

Guy Debord

#18. Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.

Ray Bradbury