Television Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

— Peter De Vries

“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty…

— Harper Lee

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Science gives up to religion that which cannot be known, and as it does not know what it is, that cannot be known, it…

— Chapman Cohen

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

— George Gissing

Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want…

— Samuel Johnson

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time,…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.

— Henry Giroux

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

— Emile M. Cioran

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

— Aleister Crowley