Quotes About Critique

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Among the defects of the bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

Immanuel Kant, autor subversivo en tiempos de sinrazón

One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them.

Don't you see that the Americans need the anti-American?

To tell you the truth, I couldn't spare either the old- or the new-fashioned manner. Too many beautiful things have been done too unusually well for me to prefer one to the other systematically. And the changes which the moderns have made in art are not always for the better; not everything means progress - neither in the works nor in the artists themselves - and often it seems to me that many lose sight of the origin and the goal, or in other words, they do not stick to the point.

Accept that you will never be objective enough to judge your personal writing very well. During

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

The right-wing critique of capitalism--that is, the critique which is unsupported by the objective movement of history--however true, acute, profound, even brilliant it might be--can only end up by capitulating before the very evil it condemns.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Atacar los libros malos no solo supone una pérdida de tiempo, sino que es malo para el carácter. Tratándose de un libro verdaderamente malo, el único interés que puede desprenderse de lo que escriba sobre él tendrá que provenir de mí mismo: de toda la inteligencia, ingenio y malicia que yo consiga desplegar. Es imposible reseñar un gran libro sin presunción.