Quotes About Critique

When a style becomes opaque, when you look at it rather than looking through it, the schoolmarmly bell of reproach begins to ring.

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

it is only because of the weird convention, almost universally accepted (see the quotation from Douglas Adams here), that religious faith is uniquely privileged: above and beyond criticism. Insulting a restaurant might seem trivial compared to insulting God. But restaurateurs and chefs really exist and they have feelings to be hurt, whereas blasphemy, as the witty bumper sticker puts it, is a victimless crime.

A. N. Wilson in Jesus and Robin Lane Fox in The Unauthorized Version (among

Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens

Karl Marx, who famously stated in the 1840s: 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.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Pray don't hold back," Robert said politely. "You can tell me what you really think of my valet." Stewart broke in to a reluctant grin."Sorry fer bein' so forward, sir, but that valet o' yers is nothin' but a Frenchified piece o' lace.

Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...

Volume 2 of Capital has indeed been not only a 'sealed book', but also a forgotten one. To a large extent, it remains so to this very day.

Es la declaración en quiebra de la economía "burguesa, expuesta ya de mano maestra, en su obra Apuntes de economía política según Stuart Mill por el gran erudito y crítico ruso N. Chernichevski.

O casamento burguês é, na realidade, um sistema de esposas em comum, portanto, quando muito, poder-se-ia censurar aos comunistas por desejarem introduzir um sistema abertamente legalizado de amor livre, em substituição a um hipocritamente escondido.

Qué en qué consiste el comunismo?, pues en que me la comas ahora mismo. Te falta fábrica Karl Marx - 1873

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Ist die Konstruktion der Zukunft und das Fertigwerden für alle Zeiten nicht unsere Sache, so ist desto gewisser, was wir gegenwärtig zu vollbringen haben, ich meine die rücksichtslose Kritik alles Bestehenden, rücksichtslos sowohl in dem Sinne, daß die Kritik sich nicht vor ihren Resultaten fürchtet und ebensowenig vor dem Konflikte mit den vorhandenen Mächten.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.