Banality Quotes

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.