Paul Johnson

Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors.

British Journalist

Chris Martin

You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.

American Musician

Karl Marx

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

German Philosopher

Flume

For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

Australian Musician

Evan Dando

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

Eric S. Raymond

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

American Author

Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

French Philosopher

Paolo Nutini

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

Scottish Musician

May Sarton

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

American Poet

Megyn Kelly

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

American Journalist

Use 'soulless' to express a strong lack of emotion in a person or their eyes.

Emotionless Connotation

'Soulless' is often metaphorical, not meaning someone literally lacks a soul.

Not Literal

Calling someone 'soulless' is serious and creates a negative impression of them.

Negative Feeling

Describe places or things as 'soulless' when they feel generic or boring.

Lacks Uniqueness

The term can imply a loss of cultural character or heritage.

Cultural Implications

‘Soulless’ suggests actions without conscience or ethical consideration.

Ethical Judgement

It can be used to describe someone who does not seem to follow any moral code.

Spiritual Void

 while rows of soulless housing or tower blocks, even when they are luxurious, tend to promote isolation and "otherness." Even simple things like shaded places or fruit plants or drinking water inside the city can make a difference in how people feel towards the place, and whether they consider it a generous place that gives,

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 The rest don't. So where do they go? They're part of the number of human beings that will never, ever be born. Well, is that because there's not enough souls? There's already so many people in the world, though. That would be something if you ran out of souls. What would a soulless person look like?

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 and turn it into a soulless zombi that will perform their bidding. Historically, these zombis were said to be put to work as laborers who needed neither food nor rest and would enrich their captor’s fortune. In other words, zombification seemed to represent the horrors of enslavement

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 know what you say right now there's no way this guy's going to stand up here and make a case for the DMV well I don't know about you but I do not want to live in a world where harsh fluorescent lights endless lines terrible forms to fill out and disaffected soulless

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 You know, none of us really tend to do the math on our transportation costs, and they're not going down any time soon. Whether you love suburbia's leafy privacy or you hate its soulless commercial strips, there are reasons why it's important to retrofit.

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 and make a case for the DMV." Well, I don't know about you, but I do not want to live in a world where harsh fluorescent lights, endless lines, terrible forms to fill out and disaffected, soulless bureaucrats remind me

 to do the math on our transportation costs and they're not going down anytime soon whether you love suburbia zli fee privacy or you it's soulless commercial strips there are reasons why it's important to

Retrofitting suburbia -...

 It also reflects the nature around us. It also reflects our soul and spirit. So, as an architect, I don't think in the future we should repeat those soulless matchboxes anymore.

Urban architecture...

 It is not true that you "just can't get good help anymore." It is true that you "can't get good help anymore" when you give people work to do that is demeaning and soulless.

The way we think about...

 My goal is to try to help trigger a global humanizing movement that no longer tolerates soulless, inhuman places. What if our buildings inspired us