Quotes About Critique

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

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

If everybody agrees with your point of view, you haven't thought hard enough.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

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

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what's going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.