Quotes About Critique

Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself.

Had you 'artists' had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train terminal," Ignatius snorted.

After all, I do not believe that one must necessarily scrape bottom, as it were, in order to view his society subjectively. Rather than moving vertically downward, one may move horizontally outward toward a point of sufficient detachment where a modicum of creature comforts are not necessarily precluded.

The children on that [American Bandstand] program should all be gassed.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

He flings pros into the air like skeet, and one by one he shatters them with cons.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea's not excellent.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

When you feel you need to start pointing out flaws in the world around you, perhaps you should start with a mirror.

There isn't one move you're gonna make where you're not being judged.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people's spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call "soft" thinking.

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.