A Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Culture Fills Our Speeches Vacuum

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John Kenneth Galbraith
American - Economist
October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

Max Brooks

Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something.

Tony Evans

The human mind doesn't like a vacuum. We will populate that vacuum with the contents of our own head, and often that's scary stuff.

Jeremy Wade

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

Lidiya Ginzburg

An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.

David Bergen

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

Genesis P-Orridge

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Mark McKinnon

Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.

Karen Marie Moning

'The Librarians' fills a vacuum, providing true family programming for TNT.

Noah Wyle

You don't need a vacuum sealer to sous vide, but let me go on record saying it helps. Once you cook your vacuum-sealed food, it can stay in fridge for about a month.

Brad Leone

I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

Rachel Nichols

Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that hold to such values, even though those values are draconian and oppressive. In fact the more a society is devoid of morality, the more promising prudish and unpermissive doctrines look. Licentious societies create a spiritual vacuum that legalistic religions such as Islam fill.