Quotes About Critique

Postmodernism started out seeking to unmask the implicit imperialism of modernist worldviews. But it has itself become imperialist, insisting that postmodernists alone have the ability to see through everyone else's underlying interests and motives—to deconstruct and debunk them.

Liberation theology often ends up as little more than theological frosting on a Marxist cake.

In today's pluralistic, multicultural world, no one can survive long on secondhand ideas. Some Christians seem to think the way to avoid being "conformed to this world" (Rom. 12:2) is by avoiding "worldly" ideas. A better strategy is to learn the skills to critically evaluate them.

If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with sticks, hit things with sticks. But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

When television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air… and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Irigaray was my favourite. She denounced Einstein's E = mc2 as a sexist equation which 'privileges the speed of light' over more feminine speeds 'which are vitally necessary to us'. Presumably, light might have appeased her if it had shown its feminine side by slowing down to 30 m.p.h. in built-up areas.)

The contemporary anthropologist, under democrats' severe gaze, skips quickly over ethnic differences like over hot coals.

Probablemente en otras épocas abundaron las porquerías tanto como en la nuestra, pero en ninguna tuvieron los discursos que las justifican y alaban popularidad semejante.

The growing number of people who consider the modern world "unacceptable" would comfort us, if we did not know that they are captives of the same convictions that made the modern world unacceptable.

The theses that the Marxist "refutes" come back to life unscathed behind his back.

Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.

Die moderne Literatur: dieses kolossale reaktionäre Unterfangen.

There are two equally erroneous attitudes toward Marxism: disdaining what it teaches, believing what it promises.

We reactionaries will live in the future society just as uncomfortably as will the Marxists; but the Marxists will look upon it with the eyes of a dumbfounded father, while we will regard it with the irony of a stranger.

Nietzsche is merely rude; Hegel is blasphemous.

But satire, ever moral, ever new,Delights the reader and instructs him, too.She, if good sense refine her sterling page,Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

you ought not judge" is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus' comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)

le roman « L'Enveloppe noire » (1986) proposait une allégorie du quotidien socialiste avec de forts accents politiques, à une époque où la dictature encourageait l'écrivain « esthète » détaché de la réalité du moment. (p. 49)