(8 quotes found)
“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
Susan Sontag
“Unfortunately it is banal, utterly banal. A patient who was not treated has died. That is all there is to say.”
Leo Bokeria
“Popular culture is riding a zipline to banality in a handbasket.”
Rain Bojangles
“How banal, yet irrefutable, is the assertion that [a person] is a mixture of the 'angelic' and the 'demonic.' ... A true politician... can be neither... 'an angel' nor 'a demon... .' [Politicians] cannot be so if [they are] to... negotiate with courage and skill on the razor's edge between victory and defeat, life and death.”
Milovan Djilas
“Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude”
Oscar Wilde
“Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.”
Michael McKean
“Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.”
Christopher Lasch
