Quotes About Critique

los saberes humanísticos, la cultura y la enseñanza constituyen el líquido amniótico ideal en el que las ideas de democracia, libertad, justicia, laicidad, igualdad, derecho a la crítica, tolerancia, solidaridad, bien común, pueden experimentar un vigoroso desarrollo.

Não nos damos conta, de fato, de que a literatura e os saberes humanísticos, a cultura e a educação constituem o líquido amniótico ideal no qual podem se desenvolver vigorosamente as ideias de democracia, liberdade, justiça, laicidade, igualdade, direito à crítica, tolerância, solidariedade e bem comum.

Así, aceptar la falibilidad del conocimiento, confrontarse con la duda, convivir con el error no significa abrazar el irracionalismo y la arbitrariedad. Significa, por el contrario, en nombre del pluralismo, ejercitar el derecho a la crítica y sentir la necesidad de dialogar también con quien lucha por valores diferentes de los nuestros.

Kitab-? Mukaddes'in Türkçesi çok kötü. ?ngilizcesi'nden kar??la?t?rarak okuyorum. Biri oturmu? çok kötü bir dille çevirmi?; bir kelimesi bile de?i?tirilemez ya: ondan sonra bir daha düzeltilmemi?. Çeviren, sanki ?sa'n?n Türkiye mümessili.

Ve biz onlara diyece?iz ki: Hesapla?ma günü geldi. ?imdiye kadar yaln?z din kitaplar?nda yarg?land?n?z. Biz fakirler, zavall?lar, yar?m yamalaklar, bu kitaplar? okuyup teselli olurken içinizden güldünüz. Ve ç?karlar?n?za bakt?n?z.

Bugünlerde din kitaplar? okuyorum. Karl Marx, kitap raflar?ndan parma??n? sall?yor bana.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

La difficoltà, in fotografia, è di prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, giudicandolo freddamente, facendo a meno del vissuto e dell'emozione che ci uniscono all'immagine.

Something has surely gone terribly wrong when Christians are the best atheist arguments against the Christian faith and Christendom their best argument for atheism.

Positive or negative its all feedback.

About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

Satire doesn't effect change.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

In college, books assigned for class were read as competitive sport - the more critically, the better.

Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a short history of unrepeatable national success, which 'spreads unlimited optimism, denigrates the past, and encourages the adoption of institutions which are in themselves destructive of the collective unity'.

The view from outside is a better place to examine a society.

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

Rewards, my tender pigpiss.

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2 000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

Mark Twain made black people look like buffoons," [says Michael]. Mort doesn't look up. He doesn't know what we're talking about, but that doesn't stop him from joining the conversation. "Michael," says Mort, "Mark Twain made everybody look like buffoons. He was an equal opportunity buffoon maker.

Don't seek praise, seek criticism.