Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.” — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“One knows one's madness, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions,… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Colin] Kaepernick, did you see what [Barack] Obama said about Kaepernick? I mean this was the biggest dodge I have… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows,… — Rodney A. Smolla Copy Share Image
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently… — John Maus Copy Share Image
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested… — David James Elliott Copy Share Image