Quotes About Critique

The only judgment comes from yourself, the sternest judge of all, as you know too well.

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.

Why'd you put that white bitch on there?

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

Unaware that our culture has subverted our faith, we lose a place from which to judge our own culture

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, reflecting on Bush's "stay-the-course" strategy, said, "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drillin' rights on that man's head.

It is also why there is so little tolerance for substantive dis- sent, or fundamental critique, in America. Since our identity is in fact quite brittle, we have to be constantly telling ourselves how fabulous we are.

We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

It is too simple to say that if you avoid kitsch you avoid empire but it is a good start. It is more accurate to say that while kitsch does not necessarily imply empire it is one of its accompaniments.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war and shoots the injured.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian

Mais uma vez, os ricardianos abriram caminho para o sistema marxista

Don't review or credit a book after reading it once. Credit it on your second read and criticise it only after you've done your third try of the same book.

Only open-minded individuals will be capable to identify the faults and failures of capitalism wherever it's implemented within the society.

I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as God-in-public, and that methods of criticism designed to keep this rumor quiet need to be challenged by appropriate historical, theological, and political critique and replaced by methods that do justice to the reality of the texts and hence do justice - in the much fuller sense - in the public world that the Gospels demand to address.

Sanders argued, basically, that the normal Christian, and especially Protestant, readings of Paul were seriously flawed, because they attributed to first-century Judaism theological views which belonged rather to medieval Catholicism. Once we described Judaism accurately, Sanders argued, we were forced to rethink Paul's critique of it, and his whole positive theology in its turn.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.