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platitudes

«Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.»
«We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.»
Author: Richard J. Daley (Mayor) | About: Achievement | Keywords: platitudes
«A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.»
«Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.»
«The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.»
«When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes»
«Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.»