We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 4:9.

No one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I have for the last 25 years. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it, but all that fades away before the spectacle that is now unfolding. The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away.I seethe Russian soldiersstanding on thethreshold of their native land, guarding the fields that their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Radio broadcast on the German invasionof Russia, 22  Jun.

   A duller spectaclethis earth of ourshas not toshow than a rainy Sunday in London.

-Depp,Johnny (John Christopher)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater (originally serialized in the London Magazine, published1822).

  It isanuneasy lot at best, tobe what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at thisgreat spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.3, ch.29.

Spain is the only country where death is the national spectacle.

-Lorca, Federico Garc|¤  a
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

-1st Baron
  In the Edinburgh Review.

C'est dans le c½ur de l'homme qu'est la vie du spectacle de la nature; pour le voir, il faut le sentir. The spectacle of nature is in the heart of a man; to see it, he must feel it.

-Rousseau,JeanJacques
  EŁ  mile ou de l'e¤  ducation, pt.3.