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title: "41 Vacuous Quotes by 37 authors"
description: "Browse 41 Vacuous quotes by 37 authors. Discover the best Vacuous sayings and thoughts."
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> [Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-scruton/sometimes-the-intention-is-to-shock-us-but-what-is-shocking-first/)

[Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-scruton/)

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> [We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/astrid-berges-frisbey/we-live-in-a-vacuous-world-yet-we-do-so-with-a-feeling-of-urgency/)

[Astrid Berges-Frisbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/astrid-berges-frisbey/)

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> [Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/of-course-the-theory-of-evolution-would-be-vacuous-if-it-offered-a/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-mayberry/i-don-t-buy-into-this-idea-that-pop-has-to-be-frivolous-or-vacuous/)

[Lauren Mayberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-mayberry/)

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> [Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-muggeridge/television-was-not-invented-to-make-human-beings-vacuous-but-is-an/)

[Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-muggeridge/)

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> [Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-muggeridge/television-was-not-intended-to-make-human-beings-vacuous-but-it-is-an/)

[Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-muggeridge/)

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> [ If we do want to do that \[ colonise space to survive, \], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-s-crisp/if-we-do-want-to-do-that-colonise-space-to-survive-then-vacuous/)

[Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-s-crisp/)

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> [Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyril-connolly/beneath-a-mask-of-selfish-tranquility-nothing-exists-except/)

[Cyril Connolly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyril-connolly/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierce-brosnan/i-just-find-that-you-can-become-a-very-boring-person-living-in-l-a-i/)

[Pierce Brosnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierce-brosnan/)

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> [Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-james-elliott/maybe-our-young-people-are-not-as-vacuous-as-we-would-like-to-lead/)

[David James Elliott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-james-elliott/)

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> [The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/the-price-of-liberty-is-in-addition-to-eternal-vigilance-eternal/)

[Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/)

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> [Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-winn/again-and-again-parents-describe-the-trancelike-nature-of-their/)

[Marie Winn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-winn/)

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> [Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-ustinov/artificial-glamor-false-eyelashes-that-sort-of-thing-usually-is-put/)

[Peter Ustinov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-ustinov/)

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> [Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-mendelssohn/such-a-divine-profession-is-art-when-everything-else-looks-so-stale/)

[Felix Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-mendelssohn/)

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> [Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyril-connolly/beneath-a-mask-of-selfish-tranquility-nothing-exists-except-2/)

[Cyril Connolly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyril-connolly/)

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> [When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-chesterfield/when-griefs-are-genuine-i-find-there-is-nothing-more-vacuous-more/)

[Lord Chesterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-chesterfield/)

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> ["The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/the-people-is-that-massive-portion-of-a-society-that-lives-by-its/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

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> [The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-notion-that-the-species-can-be-improved-in-some-way-that-everyone/)

[Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/)

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> [It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-sounds-superficially-fair-but-it-presupposes-that-that-there-is/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [ Speaking of \[Colin\] Kaepernick, did you see what \[Barack\] Obama said about Kaepernick? I mean this was the biggest dodge I have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/speaking-of-colin-kaepernick-did-you-see-what-barack-obama-said-about/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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> [We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-yorke/we-re-at-a-time-when-we-are-being-presented-with-undeniable-changes/)

[Thom Yorke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-yorke/)

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> [It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-vreeland/it-was-strange-when-you-reduced-even-a-fledgling-love-affair-to-its/)

[Susan Vreeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-vreeland/)

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> [ Like Karl Kraus \[Wittgenstein\], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/like-karl-kraus-wittgenstein-was-seldom-pleased-by-what-he-saw-of-the/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

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> [Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guido-von-list/now-because-men-of-our-contemporary-age-are-caught-up-in-the-ascetic/)

[Guido von List](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guido-von-list/)

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> [I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/i-can-honestly-say-that-there-are-many-forms-of-atheism-that-i-find/)

[David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/)

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> [ “\[Religious belief is\] outmoded and ridiculous. \[Belief in gods was a\] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-w-atkins/religious-belief-is-outmoded-and-ridiculous-belief-in-gods-was-a-worn/)

[P.W. Atkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-w-atkins/)

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> [The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/the-disappearance-of-theology-from-the-life-of-the-church-and-the/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

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> [Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-maus/musical-acts-that-feign-enthusiasm-for-what-they-re-doing-the/)

[John Maus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-maus/)

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> [In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/in-our-postmodern-culture-which-is-tv-dominated-image-sensitive-and/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

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> [Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyril-connolly/beneath-this-mask-of-selfish-tranquility-nothing-exists-except/)

[Cyril Connolly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyril-connolly/)

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> [First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-c-brown/first-of-all-you-must-understand-that-practising-martial-arts-means/)

[William C. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-c-brown/)

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> [You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damian-lewis/you-can-t-do-something-that-is-morally-vacuous-or-dysfunctional-and/)

[Damian Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damian-lewis/)

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> [Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-fournier/romney-and-democratic-rival-president-obama-have-led-their-partisan/)

[Ron Fournier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-fournier/)

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> [Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-a-smolla/commercials-are-not-the-only-junk-food-in-the-speech-market-indeed/)

[Rodney A. Smolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-a-smolla/)

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> [“One knows one's madness, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/one-knows-one-s-madness-by-and-large-by-and-large-the-knowledge-is/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

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> [One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woody-allen/one-filmmaker-makes-films-that-are-deep-intellectual-profound-and/)

[Woody Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woody-allen/)

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> [It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tarek-saab/it-s-one-thing-for-a-person-to-live-his-life-as-a-vacuous-shell/)

[Tarek Saab](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tarek-saab/)

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> [“Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tanith-lee/roilant-caught-himself-with-exasperation-slipping-into-vacuous/)

[Tanith Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tanith-lee/)

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> [Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/social-and-political-issues-in-general-seem-to-me-fairly-simple-the/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mokokoma-mokhonoana/most-unintelligent-or-foolish-people-do-not-regard-themselves-as-that/)

[Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mokokoma-mokhonoana/)

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                        "text": "“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made the world' is simply a more or less sophisticated way of saying that we don't understand how the universe originated. A god, in so far as it is anything, is an admission of ignorance. Religion utterly failed to provide an explanation of the biosphere other than that 'God made it all'. Then Darwin thundered over the horizon and in a few decades of observation and thought . . . arrived at an answer. I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. I came here today to de-corrupt you all.”",
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