“Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
Walter Benjamin
“Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.”
Barack Obama
“We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.”
Richard J. Daley
“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.”
Margaret Thatcher
“The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude”
Norman Mailer
“Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude”
Oscar Wilde
“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”
C.S. Lewis
