"The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time."

-- Henrik Ibsen

#Spectacles Quotes

“Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africaâ€™s impoverishment.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism”
“I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).”

Source : Anthony Hope (2016). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.4, Xist Publishing
“Two full time-outs. I could eat lunch with that long.”
“For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.165, Rowman & Littlefield
“Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.”
“When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.”
“The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).”

Source : Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge
“I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.”

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