The 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. The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.

Bill Dedman

#4. Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary- not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don't want to."
~Jace Wayland

Cassandra Clare

#5. 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

#6. Okay, she's mad as a sack of ferrets.

David Mitchell

#7. Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

Debra Wilson

#8. 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

#9. My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. 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

#11. You love stories, Emilia. Well, the trees hold hundreds of years of stories. Think of it, everything these trees have seen and felt. All of the secrets are inside of them.

Ruta Sepetys

#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. I love you, even when you're an ass."
"I love you, even when you're kicking me in the balls.

Chelsea M. Cameron

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

Guy Debord

#18. Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Emil Cioran

#19. sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in

Laura Lippman