Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

… too much of a talker to be a deep thinker

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

The man [President Woodrow Wilson] has no sense of things that penetrates below the surface. With him the rhetoric of a thing is the thing itself.

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.

TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.