Quotes About Critique

Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read and you don't, you just failed to read it right. ;-)

The intellectual is and only can be a militant, engaged as a singularity among others, embarked on the project of co-research aimed at making the multitude. The intellectual is thus not 'out in front' to determine the movements of history or 'on the sidelines' to critique them but rather completely 'inside.

And I know, because I've been there, that there is a hellworld where you're always expected to have an opinion about everything all the time: a judgment, a take - a 'view,' in the most ordinary sense of the word.

Revelation as prophecy should probably be understood as anti-assimilationist, or anti-accommodationist, literature. It is also in this sense that Revelation is resistance literature—"a thorough-going prophetic critique of the system of Roman power" and "the most powerful piece of political resistance literature from the period of the early Empire.

It's a serious world, someone has to make fun of it.

Moderne Malerei ist jener Wandbehang, dem das häppchenverdrückende und plaudernde Publikum bei Vernissagen seinen Rücken zukehrt.

Es fragt sich, warum die moderne bildende Kunst immer noch in den Feuilletons der Zeitungen behandelt wird und nicht gleich im Wirtschaftsteil.

What is required of philosophical research is that it be a critique of the present. In disclosing the past in an original manner, the past is no longer seen to be merely a present that preceded our own present. Rather, it is possible to emancipate the past so that we can find in it the authentic roots of our existence and bring it into our own present as a vital force. Historical consciousness liberates the past for the future, and it is then that the past gains force and becomes productive.

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn't mean it's good." "Snob," Sam said.

And then he delivered a scornful critique of Robert Mueller: "What an asshole." And there, perhaps, Trump had something of a point. If this was the result—a pass on conspiracy and equivocation on obstruction—how could you not have hastened it along, or, worse, how could you have fostered the exact opposite impression?

Trump saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses. He saw people through their physical and intellectual shortcomings, or through oddities in the way they talked or dressed.

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.

A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

Jesus had loved men too much, that was the problem; to let himself be crucified for their sake showed, at the very least, a lack of taste, as the old faggot would have put it.

Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.

Mládí, krása, síla: kritéria fyzické lásky jsou pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› stejná jako kritéria nacismu. A já byl prostÄ› v hajzlu.

De todos los sistemas económicos y sociales el capitalismo es, sin duda, el más natural. Eso ya basta para indicar que es el peor.

Parfois on se fait instrumentaliser, comme moi je me fait instrumentaliser aussi, tout le monde se fait instrumentaliser. Evidemment, on dit regardez comme la presse est libre - elle invite des individus qui critiquent la presse donc ça veut bien dire qu'on est libre, mais je suis pas dupe du fait que non, je suis la caution qui permet à la presse de dire qu'elle est libre alors qu'elle ne l'est pas. LCI M.Onfray 10/05/17 11m40

Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Casi el único valor de las grandes obras maestras del ingenio humano consiste en haber provocado un libro de crítica o de comentario.

Sí, ya sé que uno de esos caudillos de la que llaman la revolución social ha dicho que la religión es el opio del puebo. Opio... Opio... Opio, sí. Démosle opio, y que duerma y que sueñe.

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