Vacuous Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. — Malcolm Muggeridge
We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of… — Thom Yorke
Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak,… — Rodney A. Smolla
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion… — David Bentley Hart
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech. — Michael Shermer
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of… — Noam Chomsky
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith
Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos… — David James Elliott
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid… — William C. Brown
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated. — Roger Scruton
It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was… — Tarek Saab
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee… — Ron Fournier
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a… — Damian Lewis
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are… — Cormac McCarthy
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it… — Susan Vreeland
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. — David F. Wells
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss… — David F. Wells
We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey
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 basis is vacuous:… — Pierce Brosnan

Who Wrote These Vacuous Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 22 Vacuous Quotes as follows: